The EU has acted decisively since the early stages of the current Ebola crisis and has today announced its latest actions in the field of research. Support to research is part of the EU's response,...

U.S. science officials say that for the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA calculated that...

Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to a 20-year-old man's arrest on charges he plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials. According to a...

A man who allegedly made a habit of stealing women’s underwear from washing lines has been on the receiving end of some ironic mob justice. After Chan Chun Chee was caught red handed by the...

Pope Francis has issued his strongest defence yet of church teaching opposing artificial contraception, using a rally in Asia's largest Catholic nation to urge families to be "sanctuaries of respect...

The large number of radicalized Muslim extremists across Europe, their lack of command structure and growing sophistication make it "extremely difficult" for law enforcement agencies to foil every...

Rival Libyan parties agreed to work toward forming a national unity government, as the country's Central Bank urged serious spending cuts in the face of a large budget deficit. Libya is torn...

Europe's automakers' association ACEA has confirmed that the industry's six-year decline ended last year, reporting a 5.7-percent increase in car sales in 2014 to 12.5 million vehicles. That was...

More than two dozen suspects have been arrested in Belgium, France and Germany in continuing searches for suspected terrorists, authorities said Friday....

A Florida teen who was processed into the Fort Lauderdale Police Department Booking Facility is set to be commended later this month for heroically helping to save the life of an officer who...