An airport worker who fell asleep and found himself trapped in a plane's cargo hold forced a Los Angeles-bound Alaska Airlines flight to return to Seattle on Monday afternoon. Flight 448 had just...

Beware! Chimp Tushi at the Dutch Burgers' Zoo is a real drone-buster. When the zoo sent a drone over the chimpanzee enclosure for a better look at how their 14 apes live, the response was...

Fighting raged overnight and in the early hours on Tuesday on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite an agreement reached by the Ukrainian and Russian foreign...

GERMANY-OBIT-GUENTER GRASS BERLIN — Guenter Grass, the Nobel-winning German writer who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era but later ran into...

A Rhode Island engineering technology and manufacturing company has set out to build the world's largest surfboard. WPRO-AM reports that Bristol-based mouldCAM is building the board for the Visit...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said 2014 was marked by harrowing accounts of rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage being used by extremists including the Islamic State group and Boko Haram. In...

A Lamborghini that was part of an exotic car racing attraction at Walt Disney World crashed into a guardrail, killing a passenger and injuring the driver. The Florida Highway Patrol...

The European Union is urging Turkey and Armenia to normalize ties after remarks by Pope Francis fueled their long-running row over the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 100 years...

A 65-year-old German mother of 13 is getting ready to give birth again — this time to quadruplets. Annegret Raunigk, a Berlin schoolteacher who is due soon to retire, is expected to give...

An aristocratic Pole has challenged an anti-immigration British politician to a duel. Jan Zylinski, who calls himself a prince, says he's tired of U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage...