A Dutch woman watched her husband and three children fall to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, Italian rescuers said.

A Dutch man, his son and two daughters fell to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, Italian rescuers said.

Executions jumped by a third in Iran and quadrupled in Saudi Arabia last year, causing the total number of executions around the world to rise yet again in 2007, a...

Executions jumped by a third in Iran and quadrupled in Saudi Arabia last year, causing the total number of executions around the world to rise yet again in 2007, a...

A Pakistani official says an army helicopter has saved two Italian climbers from one of the world’s highest mountains.

Organizers of a Himalayan climb say bad weather has delayed a helicopter rescue for two Italians descending a mountain in Pakistan following the death of a fellow...

Italian officials carrying out a survey of the country’s Gypsy population will only fingerprint those who don’t have a valid ID, the Interior Ministry said...

Italy’s Parliament gave final approval Tuesday to a contentious law that grants immunity from prosecution to Premier Silvio Berlusconi and other top Italian...

An inmate known as the “spam king” for sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mails has walked away from a federal prison camp in Colorado.

Frank Schleck of Luxembourg kept the yellow jersey in the Tour de France on Tuesday, with riders pushing themselves through the Alps as cycling’s showcase race...

French rider Cyril Dessel has won the 16th stage of the Tour de France as the pack returned from Italy across two huge Alpine climbs.

New Tour de France leader Frank Schleck and his CSC team were given a surprise doping test after the 15th stage ended in Italy. No results were announced in a race in...

Australia’s Simon Gerrans has won the 15th stage of the Tour de France as cycling’s premier race began its third and final week with a ride through the Alps...

A man beat his 4-year-old daughter’s head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police...

A tour operator says Pakistani rescuers have spotted two Italian mountaineers on one of the world’s deadliest peaks. A third Italian climber with them is believed...

Italy is all about grace and even when the country chooses to adapt to something modern, that new inception has to be superfluous and full of splendour, complimenting...

Most women only a few days away from their 63rd birthday would be steering well clear of the beach. And if they did venture there, it would be in the most modest of...

This is a real good move by Ronaldinho and all the more when you consider that clubs these days think they can tell players not to go on national duty! Rubbish...

A renowned Italian mountain climber is missing and believed dead after falling into a crevasse on one of the world’s deadliest peaks in the western Himalayas,...

A U.N. food agency is appealing for $33.5 million to help small farmers and fishermen in cyclone-hit Myanmar.