Spain's National Statistics Office says the country's economy shrank a worse-than-expected 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the previous three-month period, reflecting...

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Hillary Clinton’s stunning (and, I trust, unfinished) career – from First Lady to United...

Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the...

    A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested in the U.S. after police found an 8-year-old developmentally disabled girl locked in a wooden cage while the rest of the family went to...

Venice is seeking to break off cultural relations with St Petersburg because of the Russian city's legislation curbing gay rights.   The city council invoked Venice's "history,...

The story in the Daily Mirror features a photo of an elegant aging monarch with the headline: "Queen Gives Up Her Throne to Son."   Then, in smaller type, "Easy,...

The execution Tuesday of a Texas woman convicted in the gruesome murder of her 71-year-old neighbor will mark the first time in three years that a female inmate has been put to death in the...

The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix announced Monday that she is ending her reign after 33 years and passing the crown to her eldest son, who has long been groomed to be king but who will have to work...

    Sergei Magnitsky died more than three years ago in a Russian jail but authorities are moving to put him on trial in a Russian court. The whistle-blowing lawyer died in 2009 after...

    Brazilian police officials said Monday they've made three detentions and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a blaze that ripped through a nightclub in southern...