Voters began casting ballots yesterday across much of Spain in local elections that could see two upstart parties end nearly four decades of dominance by the ruling conservative Popular Party and its...

Saudi Arabia has confirmed that Friday's suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the east of the country that killed 21 was carried out by an Islamic State militant, backing up an earlier claim by the...

The death toll in China's latest round of flooding has risen to at least 52, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged into a pond,...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes behind a growing humanitarian crisis that has forced thousands of Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshi...

Parents have "self-exiled from the education of their children" and must take back their role as their children's educators from the "so-called experts," says Pope Francis. At his May 20 weekly...

Tonight the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 take place in Vienna, Austria.  Drag Queen Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest last year bringing the event to Austria....

Ireland appears to have voted heavily in favour of allowing same-sex marriage in a historic referendum that marks a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Catholic country, government ministers...

At least 43 people have been killed in a shoot-out in the western Mexican state of Michoacan. Friday's gunfight between security forces and an armed gang took place in Tanhuato near the Jalisco...

IRELAND-GAY MARRIAGE DUBLIN — For months, Ireland has debated whether to legalize gay marriage. Now it's time to vote, and the choice is a simple yes or no. Friday's referendum on amending...

The Moroccan migrant accused of being involved in Tunisia's Bardo Museum massacre insisted Friday on his innocence and refused to voluntarily be turned over to Tunisian authorities. Abdelmajid...