Cuban President Raul Castro received a warm welcome at the Vatican yesterday from Pope Francis, who played a key role in the breakthrough between Washington and Havana aimed at restoring US-Cuban...

Fighting between police forces and members of an armed group has continued for a second day in the northern Macedonian town of Kumanovo. Five police officers were killed and over 30 injured in an...

A Chinese plane veered off a runway upon landing in the southeastern city of Fuzhou today, and five people suffered minor injuries, the domestic carrier Joyair said. Joyair said it was...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICANS GREENVILLE, South Carolina — Republicans presidential hopefuls aim to out-do each other in making their pitches to a conservative audience in a key early...

A senior Vatican cardinal predicted Saturday that there will be no change in the Catholic Church's practice and teaching about marriage, divorce and the reception of Communion at an upcoming meeting...

Ireland and France are the latest European Union nations to answer pleas to help Italy save migrant lives in the Mediterranean, while international humanitarian organizations are also...

A 4-year-old West Texas boy has died after he was struck in the head by a falling tombstone in a cemetery. Odessa Police spokesman Cpl. Steve LeSueur says Levi Driver was playing while his family...

A military plane has crashed near Seville, coming down in a field and bursting into flames, killing at least three people. Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, said eight to ten people were...

NHS hospital bosses have apologised after hundreds of patients were wrongly told that they might have cancer. East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust sent leaflets to 850 people telling...

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in the capital, Cairo. His sons were given four years each in the same case...