Firefighters kept a vast wildfire in southwest France from advancing overnight Tuesday, extinguishing flare-ups near Atlantic ...

Major Hurricane Genevieve was roaring in the Pacific Ocean far from land Monday morning at the same time that Hurricane ...

Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which was born after the ravages of World War II to help ...

Police searched for a second suspect Monday after gunfire erupted at a crowded food festival beneath Seattle’s Space Needle, ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Wu Chi-wai was granted permission to remain in the U.K. as a visitor, his lawyer said ...

Iran on Tuesday hanged two men convicted in a case of killing four police officers during January protests, state media reported. A report by Mizanonline.ir, affiliated to the ...

Artist Betye Saar, whose work reflects Black identity, culture and spirituality, died Sunday morning in Los Angeles at 99.

An 18-year-old from Phenix City has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a deadly shooting at a Lee ...

Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 ...

A man fatally shot his wife and their six children, then himself, before they all were found in their burning Michigan home ...

More than half a century passed before some measure of justice was served over the weekend for the murder of popular Chilean ...

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss its criminal case against a labor union leader who was arrested while protesting ...