The construction cranes poking up from the jumble of terracotta roofs on Lisbon's skyline can be counted on one hand - a dismal reminder for Ricardo Gomes of how little work there is for his...

The Salesian priest who was captured by Islamic State was crucified on Good Friday, a cardinal confirmed. The Rev. Thomas Uzhunnalil, a Salesian priest, was kidnapped in Yemen in early March...

PAKISTAN-BLAST ISLAMABAD — A bombing on Easter Sunday kills 65 people in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore that was crowded with Christians, including many children. A...

A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday has killed 70 people and wounded 300, a health official said. Many of the injured are in a critical condition, Salman...

A tough Siamese cat named Cupcake has survived eight days cooped up in a box after accidentally being sent through the mail by her British owners. Cupcake was in a box with an order of DVDs that...

A Brussels square that has been a memorial site turned agitated on Sunday when black-clad men started shouting slogans and carrying a banner with an expletive against the Islamic State...

Several hundred Iraqis and Syrians in the Idomeni border camp stood between protesters and police on Sunday, thwarting the protesters' efforts to march toward the fence separating Greece from...

Two arrests have been made in Britain after a seven-year-old girl died while using a bouncy castle at an Easter fair. The girl died after the inflatable castle at Harlow Town Park, 30 miles north...

Pope Francis is celebrating Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, where tens of thousands of faithful are patiently enduring tight security to be near him. Police are checking the handbags...

Syrian government forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State fighters from Palmyra on Sunday, ending the group's reign of terror over a town whose famed 2,000-year-old ruins once drew...