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...

Migrants have been banned from a historic swimming bath in Germany after a gang of men were caught on camera doing lewd acts in a hot tub and sexually assaulting women. Several other men...

A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the U.S. East Coast to a standstill Saturday, dumping as much as 3 feet (90 centimeters) of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travelers and...

Thousands attended the grand opening in St. Mark's Square of the Venice Carnival, celebrated Saturday under heightened security following the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in Cologne and the...

When the Oscar nominations revealed a second consecutive year of all-white acting nominees, it lit a fire under film academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first African-American to lead...

A potentially paralyzing blizzard began dumping snow on the southern and eastern United States, spurring mass flight cancelations over the weekend and causing seven states to declare a state of...

A gunman opened fire at a high school and a second location in an aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, leaving four dead and at least two injured, officials said. Prime Minister Justin...

WASHINGTON — A potentially paralyzing blizzard begins dumping snow on the southern and eastern United States, spurring mass flight cancelations over the weekend and causing seven states to...

Pope Francis is asking politicians and even his own pastors to watch what they say and how they say it. In his annual message to mark the church's world day of social communications, Francis on...

An effort to decriminalize polygamy by the family from the TV show "Sister Wives" reached its highest level of the legal system so far Thursday as federal appeals judges questioned a lawyer for Utah...