Sweden's housing minister has stepped down amid mounting questions over his contacts with Islamists and ultra-nationalists from his native Turkey. Mehmet Kaplan, a 44-year-old Green Party member...

The longest-reigning monarch in British history turns 90 on Thursday, but Queen Elizabeth II is not planning a major, fireworks-filled celebration to mark the happy occasion. Just a gentle stroll...

European Union foreign ministers are looking at ways to boost the fledgling U.N.-backed national unity government in Libya and see how to control illegal migration from the north African...

British Treasury chief George Osborne says the country would be "permanently poorer" if it votes to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum. Osborne says in an interview with the BBC...

These are the main stories covered by the Associated Press on 17 April...

A thriving financial services industry that evolved over the last 30 years in the British Virgin Islands made it one of the most popular places in the world to form a corporation, turning a sleepy...

Brazil's lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, delivering a major blow to a long-embattled leader who repeatedly argued that the push against her was a...

Friends and foes of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called each other "putchists" and "thieves" ahead of Sunday's vote in Congress' lower house on whether to proceed with her impeachment, as...

A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Ecuador's central coast on Saturday, killing at least 233 people and spreading panic hundreds of kilometers (miles) away as it collapsed homes and buckled a...

During a provocative and emotional visit to Greece Saturday, Pope Francis implored Europe to respond to the migrant crisis on its shores "in a way that is worthy of our common humanity." The pope...