It has been a wretched year for Pope Francis, whose blind spot on clergy sex abuse conspired with events beyond his control to threaten his legacy and throw the Catholic hierarchy into a credibility...

The European Union will accept France running a budget deficit higher than the EU’s 3% next year, as long as it is a one-off event, EU Budget Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said on...

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth appear to have tied the knot amid reports the couple got married in a secret wedding ceremony. Cyrus posted three black-and-white photos of her and Hemsworth on the...

Indonesia has raised the danger level for an island volcano that triggered a tsunami over the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java, and widened its no-go zone. The country's...

Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer go to the...

London's Gatwick Airport is seeking to run a full schedule Saturday after police arrested a man and a woman in connection with the "criminal use of drones." In a statement, Britain's...

A New York state appeals court will decide in coming weeks whether chimpanzees are entitled to "legal personhood" in a case that could lead to expanded rights for animals such as gorillas,...

Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's has cut France's credit outlook to 'negative', due to concerns about the country's struggling economic recovery. However, it affirmed France's AA/A-1+...

An Alaska couple who had been told by police that their son had died in a car crash was stunned when they went to inform his girlfriend and their son opened the door. Karen Priest said her...

American Marines scrambled to add Ebola treatment beds in Liberia on Friday, while the U.S. and Britain readied new disease screenings for passengers arriving at their airports from West Africa....