Suddenly, almost silently, a group of young men carrying a small plastic dinghy emerges from the darkness, dashes across a road and a dirty strip of sand and plunges into the crystal-clear waters of...

A search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger plane that went missing with 54 people onboard, rescue officials said Monday. There was no immediate word if there were any...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there's no certainty the latest bailout for Greece will succeed but she is hopeful the country can overcome its economic crisis if it adheres to the...

Syrian government warplanes attacked a busy market in a rebel-held suburb of the capital Damascus today, killing at least 67 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest single...

Officials in Catania, Sicily, say 49 migrants who died in the crowded hold of a smuggling boat will be buried in a local cemetery. Deputy Mayor Marco Consoli says the bodies are expected to...

ibya's internationally recognized government has appealed to Arab countries to carry out airstrikes against the local Islamic State affiliate which is expanding its hold on the coastal central city of...

An Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people was missing yesterday after it lost contact with ground control while flying in bad weather on a short flight in the country's mountainous easternmost...

CUBA-YEARNING FOR DEMOCRACY HAVANA — The sight of the Stars and Stripes fluttering over a new U.S. Embassy in Havana and Secretary of State John Kerry's call for "genuine democracy" in Cuba...

Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical...

Cristiano Ronaldo's sister, Katia Aveiro, has launched a Twitter campaign asking fans to back her bid to represent Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest. The soccer star's 38-year-old sibling...