Washington’s political cacophony will be muffled this week, with Congress in recess and President Barack Obama scheduled to travel outside ...

The Cambridge mosque that the Boston bombing suspects attended held an inter-faith prayer service Friday to mourn the victims of the terrori...

Farmers in the U.S. midwest are anxious to plant crops. But heavy rains and record flooding are preventing them from heading to the fields. ...

Music fans are mourning the loss of a true Country legend. George Jones, 81, died Friday at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Cente...

President Obama visited the central Texas town of West, where a massive explosion last week killed 14 people, injured 200 and destroyed or h...

Alongside Germany, France has been in the driving seat of European integration, but figures released Thursday show over 3.2 million French a...

The continuing legal complications that threaten to annul the Guatemalan trial of a former military dictator have brought renewed attention ...

U.S. lawmakers on Friday stopped the air controller furloughs that have caused thousands of flight delays at airports across the country. Th...

In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge murdered some two million Cambodians and sacked the country’s cultural treasure, attempting to exterminate a...

As the art scene in Kenya has grown, Michael Soi's works have become searing depictions of society, including the underworld of strip clubs...

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were identified, in part, through a massive dissemination of information and photos to the w...

The top NATO military commander says, with all the challenges still facing Afghanistan, he is only “cautiously optimistic” that the Afghan...

U.S. officials say shifting more diplomatic, commercial, and military assets to the Asia-Pacific region is not a threat to China. Stepped-up...

China is cementing its reputation as the most important market for the auto industry. Chinese auto sales are up 13 percent from a year ago ...

Mobile phone use in Africa has spread far, wide and fast. By the end of last year, it was estimated that 70 percent of the population would ...

Earlier this month in western Burma, hundreds of villagers, activists, and workers protested against a China-backed pipeline project. Simila...

A new campaign has been announced to eradicate polio. The six-year plan costing $5.5 billion was unveiled Thursday at the Global Vaccine Sum...

Last October, when Hurricane Sandy slammed the east coast of the United States with powerful winds, sea surges and flooding, it threatened t...

Phyllis Ramberg, 85, lives alone in Hyattsville, Maryland, in the same house her parents lived in for many decades.

Flight delays are affecting air travel at U.S. airports as federal aviation officials reduce hours for about 15,000 air traffic controllers....