PRESIDENTIAL RACE-DEMOCRATS WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton's polished performance in the first Democratic debate serves more than anything as a warning to the chaotic Republican field...

The European Union lashed out at member countries for failing to come up with funds and experts they promised to help cope with the refugee emergency, with the crisis set to take center stage at...

One hundred more refugees from Italy will be shared out among European Union nations next week as the bloc's quota scheme gathers pace. The asylum-seekers could be lodged in Germany, Finland,...

Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of two women who argued their husbands misled judges about their wealth during divorce proceedings — a landmark decision that may reopen other...

Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for recent scandals that have hit Rome and the Vatican. The pope didn't cite specific examples in his off-the-cuff request for pardon at the start of his...

The Vatican spokesman denounced the leak of a private letter to Pope Francis by conservative cardinals complaining about the way his big family meeting is being run. But he reminded those...

Six decades can change things. Playboy — once considered racy, even obscene — has become a benign and perhaps even stuffy icon of an era when sex was ... well, sexy. With explicit...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-DEMOCRATIC DEBATE LAS VEGAS — Front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and her main rival Sen. Bernie Sanders clash over U.S. involvement in the Middle East, gun control and...

Scientists say they have extracted ancient DNA from the skull of a man buried in the highlands of Ethiopia 4,500 years ago that supports the theory that Eurasian farmers migrated into Africa...

Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was destroyed by a Buk surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board said Tuesday as it presented the results of an official probe into the...