Hundreds of surfers dressed as Santa Claus caught the waves and celebrated on the shore in what has become an annual tradition at Florida's Cocoa Beach. Organizers of the seventh annual Surfing...

Tourists in ancient Pompeii have freshly-restored marvels to admire, including a merchant's luxuriously decorated home and a more modest middle-class dwelling. A business where Pompeii residents...

Christian faithful from around the world descended Thursday on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, as an outburst of...

A car has smashed into a Costa coffee shop in Britain, leaving one woman dead and five other people injured. The car hit the front of the cafe Thursday morning in Westerham, 25 miles (40...

Another 19 people, including six children, drowned Thursday in the waters of the Aegean off the coast of the Turkish city of Izmir after their boat capsized. The Turkish coast guard said rescue...

About 35 African migrants, including at least one rescued at sea from an overcrowded wooden boat, are among the top prize winners of Spain's Christmas lottery, according to the owner of the lottery...

Beijing police tightened security around a bar and shopping area popular with foreigners on Thursday as embassies issued warnings their citizens to be on guard for possible threats against...

China, Egypt and Iran top the list of the world's leading jailers of journalists in a new annual report by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Eritrea, Ethiopia and Turkey also...

LATIN AMERICA-LEFTIST RETREAT CARACAS, Venezuela — After a decade on the advance, the left in South America is in retreat amid an economic storm of the likes the region hasn't seen in...

Libya's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday his country will hold off asking nations like the United States and Britain to intervene with airstrikes against the growing presence of the Islamic State group...