Italian Premier Matteo Renzi says the European Union must rapidly devise a long-range, comprehensive policy to stop the flood of migrants setting out from Libya, including establishing refugee camps...

A former Auschwitz guard is taking the stand for a second day Wednesday to answer judges' questions about his role at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told the court...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

Rescue seemed so close at hand. A ship with experience plucking migrants from unseaworthy smuggler's boats had arrived soon after the distress call went out. But then the fishing trawler's...

Spurred into action by a massive loss of lives in the Mediterranean, the European Union's executive arm has proposed a 10-point action plan for dealing with the unprecedented migrant influx. Here's a...

Police in Shropshire have issued a warning after the death of a woman who took "diet pills" bought over the internet. Doctors were unable to save Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, who took...

The United Nations refugee agency says it believes more than 800 people drowned when a boat packed with migrants trying to reach Europe sank on Saturday, the worst such incident ever in the...

The leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been seriously wounded in an air strike in western Iraq, sources have told the Guardian. A source in Iraq with connections to...

Italian prosecutors on Tuesday began building their case against the traffickers (photo) responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the Mediterranean, as European Union leaders...

Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected priestly child abuser in the first known case of a pope sanctioning bishops for...