Human Rights Watch is warning that European Union measures on curbing the flow of migrants from Libya to the bloc risk condemning asylum-seekers to "violent abuse" by armed groups in the North African...

Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius stood and faced Judge Thokozile Masipa as she announced the sentence in a South...

Brutal dash camera footage shows the moment a furious driver punches a fellow motorist several times through his open window, the Daily Mail reports. At the start of the video a Vauxhall Corsa...

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Until the summer of 1916, many scientists believed sharks would never harm humans. That myth was shattered when the first recorded multiple fatal shark attacks left four people dead at the New Jersey...

The lawyer for a woman at the heart of a trial over leaks from the Vatican said Tuesday her client may not be likable, but that she shouldn't be convicted just because she's "unpleasant, insufferable,...

The race to succeed Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron intensified Tuesday as Britain grappled with growing signs of economic strain resulting from the country's vote to leave the European...

Audio from the flight deck voice recorder of EgyptAir MS804 shows an attempt to put out a fire on board the jet before it crashed into the Mediterranean, sources on the investigation committee said on...

Britain's Conservative prime minister is stepping down. The Labour Party leader is barely clinging to power. And now the head of the U.K. Independence Party, a key architect of the dramatic vote to...

Hungary will hold a government-initiated referendum on Oct. 2 seeking political support to oppose any European Union efforts to resettle refugees among its member states, the office of President Janos...