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...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has jumped back into presidential politics, making a much-awaited announcement she will again seek the White House in 2016 with a promise to serve as the "champion" of...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has jumped back into presidential politics, making a much-awaited announcement she will again seek the White House in 2016 with...

Four members of Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory commission travelled to Rome on Sunday to voice their concerns in person about Francis' appointment of a Chilean bishop accused of covering up for the...