British lawmakers will question the chief executive and chairman of HSBC, Europe's biggest bank by market value, amid allegations it helped the wealthy dodge taxes. CEO Stuart Gulliver and...

An Egyptian border official says some 20,000 Egyptians have fled Libya since the release of a grisly beheading video by Islamic State militants. The video, showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian...

A unique federally funded study offers a detailed look at the lives of gay, lesbian and transgender youth in New York City who cope with homelessness and poverty by engaging in what the researchers...

Three Austrians have replaced injured hands with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs. The three men are the first to...

Posters are being printed and slogans are being polished as Britain's politicians battle it out in the most unpredictable national election in decades. One top election analyst has dubbed it "the...

UKRAINE KHARTSYZK, Ukraine - Howitzers were moving away from the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, heading further into separatist-controlled territory, and the rebels said they have...

Russian-backed separatists moved some heavy weapons well back from the front line Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government disputed the rebels' claim that a real pullback had...

Police investigating the disappearance of three British teenage girls say they believe they are no longer in Turkey and have crossed into Syria. Authorities believe the girls could be on their...

The United Nations secretary-general says the U.N. mission in Libya should be cut substantially because of the new and more dangerous situation there. Ban Ki-moon's report circulated Tuesday says...

A mayor in the Czech Republic says a local man has opened fire in a restaurant in a clash that has left at least eight people dead. Patrik Kuncar, mayor of the southeastern town of Uherske Brod,...