An Egyptian granite sculpture of a sphinx that risked ending up on the black market for antiquities is destined instead for a Rome museum.    Italian Tax Police Maj. Massimo Rossi says the...

The Duchess of Cambridge left a London hospital Thursday after being treated for acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy.   Clutching a small bouquet of yellow roses, the former Kate...

Surrounded by steep mountains, far-flung New Bataan town has long been a tragedy waiting to happen in a valley of disasters. A government-issued geological hazard map identifies the extremely...

It may be just a bluff or a bargaining ploy, but the White House is signaling that President Barack Obama is willing to let the country go over the "fiscal cliff," a hard-line negotiating...

Overnight clashes in Cairo between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist leader killed at least three people, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, as the nation further descended into...

    Ireland's government unveiled plans for €3.5 billion ($4.5 billion) in new taxes and spending cuts in the debt-burdened country's sixth straight austerity...

Officials from 48 countries meeting Wednesday in Brussels are expected to formally create what they are calling a global alliance to fight child sexual abuse online, a cross-border crime that is...

An Israeli-Palestinian showdown over plans for new Jewish settlements around Jerusalem escalated on Wednesday. Israel pushed the most contentious of the projects further along in the planning...

The world's tallest woman has died in eastern China. She was 39.   Chinese state media say Yao Defen died on 13 November at her home in China's eastern province of...

Mud-stained bodies covered with banana leaves were laid out in a row and survivors dried their soiled belongings on the roadside under a bright sun Wednesday, a day after a typhoon killed more than...