EUROPE-TERROR BRUSSELS — More than two dozen suspects have been arrested in Belgium, France and Germany in continuing searches for suspected terrorists, authorities said Friday. Thirteen...

Italy's foreign minister on Friday denied media reports that Italy had paid $12 million in ransom to free two young aid workers held for five months in Syria, telling lawmakers "we are against paying...

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed Friday to a joint effort to fight domestic terrorism after last week's deadly attacks in France. Cameron said the...

Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? Pope Francis made headlines when he said en route to the Philippines that there were limits to free speech, especially when it ridicules or...

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...