EUROPE-IRAN — The Iranian president meets with Pope Francis, who has praised Tehran and the West for the landmark nuclear deal, in the first visit by an Iranian president to the Vatican since...

"Dear Pope Francis," 10-year-old Mohammed begins, "Will the world be again as it was in the past?" Signed "Respectfully yours," the boy wrote from a Jesuit-run school for refugee children in...

Police in Sweden have arrested a man in connection with a shocking viral video that shows him spitting on and hitting a woman with her children. Last Thursday morning, police report...

Libya's internationally recognized parliament on Monday rejected a U.N.-sponsored unity government with rival authorities based in Tripoli, dealing a blow to months of efforts aimed at bridging a...

A large chunk of metal that could be from an aircraft washed ashore in southern Thailand, but Malaysian authorities have cautioned against speculation of a link to a Malaysia Airlines flight missing...

An unusually cold weather front has been blamed for killing 57 mostly elderly people in Taiwan's greater Taipei area. The cold wave abruptly pushed temperatures to a 16-year low of 4...

The blizzard-blanketed Eastern U.S. will confront a Monday commute slowed by slick roads, damaged transit lines and endless mounds of snow, after a weekend of sledding, snowboarding and staying...

A new video released by the Islamic State group purports to show the militants who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris committing atrocities in IS-controlled territory while plotting...

NEW YORK — Brilliant sunshine and gently rising temperatures followed the mammoth blizzard that paralyzed Washington and set a single-day snowfall record in New York City, enabling millions on...

A South African mayor has awarded college scholarships to 16 young women for remaining virgins to encourage others to be "pure and focus on school," her spokesman said Sunday. The scholarship was...