The European Union's parliament has confirmed German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen to be the new president of the EU's executive commission. The European Parliament voted 383-327 vote...

Outgoing German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen is seeking to woo enough legislators at the European Parliament to secure the job of European Commission President in a secret vote late...

Two people died and 12 others were injured in a theme-park ride accident in Ahmedabad, India. The Discovery ride at Kankaria Amusement Park was carrying 31 people when the main shaft broke...

A 93-year-old Italian man told police that he killed his wife because he was convinced she was planning to betray him by sending him to an old people’s home, Italian media report. The man...

Amy McInerney at first saw Joe Biden as Democrats' best hope to beat President Donald Trump — an experienced politician with the potential to peel off some of Trump's working-class supporters....

A man who was bitten by a black widow spider in the southern Italian city of Barletta was saved by an antidote sent just in time from an anti-poison centre in Pavia, Italian media report. The...

Barry rolled into the Louisiana coast Saturday, flooding highways, forcing people to scramble to rooftops and dumping heavy rain that officials had feared could test the levees and pumps that were...

A power outage crippled the tourist-filled heart of Manhattan just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to go on, sending theater-goers spilling into the streets, knocking out Times Square's...

The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery. The Vatican said it...

Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents — ranging from scantily...