A Belfast High Court ruling is expected to ease Northern Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws to make it easier for women to terminate pregnancies in some cases. Judge Mark Horner said Monday that...

Pope Francis ventured into the volatile Muslim enclave of Central African Republic's capital on Monday and brought his message of reconciliation to the city's main mosque, insisting that Christians...

Even as foreign powers step up pressure against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the militant group has expanded in Libya and established a new base close to Europe where it can generate oil revenue...

8 p.m. Pope Francis has warned climate change negotiators meeting in Paris that "it's now or never" to come up with an agreement to limit global warming....

British police say two men have scaled Buckingham Palace in an apparent protest over fathers' rights. London's Metropolitan Police force said officers were called Sunday afternoon to reports of a...

OBAMA-CLIMATE PARIS (AP) — President Barack Obama says that American leadership is helping make gains in the global fight against climate change as he tried to reassure world leaders...

This time, it's a hotter, waterier, wilder Earth that world leaders are trying to save. The last time that the nations of the world struck a binding agreement to fight global warming was 1997, in...

Some 180 countries have already presented plans to cut or rein in their climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions. That's a huge step forward for the U.N. climate talks but a host of difficult...

Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week’s high-stakes climate change negotiations by pledging billions of dollars to...

European Union leaders eager for Turkey's help in the migrant crisis cautioned against promising too much to their often reluctant partner at a summit in Brussels Sunday, even as Turkey's prime...