The British military acknowledged Friday that one of its planes carrying more than 60 people in Iraq was damaged by insurgent fire _ more than a year after it said...

A judicial probe into the assassination of a Roman Catholic lawyer in Northern Ireland reported Friday that it has lost sensitive computer data about the...

Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that...

Eva Longoria Parker gets to play dress-up at the Cannes Film Festival _ and she doesn’t even have to pack her own suitcase.

Indiana Jones doesn’t give up his secrets lightly, and neither does the man pulling his strings.

Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaida-linked militants with roots in...

British Airways said Friday it will pay a dividend for the first time in seven years after reporting its full-year profits more than doubled.

Serbia’s nationalists and Socialists from late strongman Slobodan Milosevic’s party said Friday they are close to forming a coalition government that would...

The nine remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up underground for months awaiting the end of the world abandoned it Friday after authorities removed two...

A French police official says authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands have detained 10 people in a probe into suspected Islamic terror financing.

The international Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Myanmar in the coming days.

The world is quickly moving to a bi-polar world led by two super powers: the U.S. and China. The way things are shaping up, on the one pole we will have the U.S., the...

Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against...

Tensions between Georgia and Russia got a jolt Thursday when a news agency quoted the head of the Russian air force as saying he favored putting military bases in a...

Iran’s new offer for international talks touches on a broad range of topics, but fails to address U.N. Security Council calls for Tehran to give up uranium...

A mother bear and her young cub stopped traffic and caused panic Thursday in central Romania after they roamed through gardens in search of food and finally climbed the...

President Dmitry Medvedev made his debut as the commander in chief of Russia’s armed forces Thursday, touring a missile base and promising to provide the funding...

Several workers were injured and others needed help getting out of the rubble when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes hanger factory, company officials said.

The EU’s top data protection supervisor said Thursday that Google Inc.’s “Street View” map and imaging feature could pose privacy problems if it...

Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, has some secrets for staying serene at the Cannes Film Festival: get her partner, Brad Pitt, to baby-sit, and wear comfy shoes on...