Premier Matteo Renzi's squabbling Democratic Party appeared headed for a stinging defeat in a key race in voting for governorships in several Italian regions, partial counting of ballots indicated...

A fuel tank exploded inside a clinic in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli yesterday, killing at least 25 people, including children, state TV and activists said. The...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Sunday that he will find out who was responsible for the mistaken shipments of live anthrax to 11 U.S. states and two countries and will "hold them...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash today, apparently after hitting a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on...

A Libya militia spokesman says a suicide car bomber from an Islamic State affiliate struck at an entrance to the western city of Misrata, killing five people. Twitter accounts of IS supporters...

Her electronic waste is someone else's treasure. A recycling center in the Silicon Valley is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collectible item...

CONGRESS-SURVEILLANCE WASHINGTON — Key Patriot Act anti-terror provisions, including bulk collection of Americans' phone records, expire at midnight unless senators come up with an 11th...

Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday that his son, Beau, has died of brain cancer. Beau Biden was 46. "It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing...

A powerful and extremely deep earthquake struck near remote Japanese islands and shook Tokyo on Saturday, but officials said there was no danger of a tsunami, and no injuries or damage were...

A Russian-born man whose first name is God has settled a lawsuit with a credit reporting agency that had refused to recognize his name as legitimate. Under the agreement reached in Brooklyn...