Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then returned to power by ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this ...

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December ...

Gloomy weather is here for Christmas and the next few days, with foggy mornings and a few rain showers beginning Thursday.

Pakistan’s airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan killed 46 people, mostly women and children, a Taliban government official said Wednesday. Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya met with top Chinese leaders Wednesday during his visit to Beijing, the first since ...

An Azerbaijani Airlines has crashed in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau. The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency. The number of people on board has not yet been confirmed. Local ...

Shares slipped in Tokyo and Shanghai on Wednesday, two of only a handful of world markets open on Christmas day. Oil prices ...

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the ...

In a dim one-room apartment in one of Istanbul’s poorest neighborhoods, 11-year-old Atakan Sahin curls up on a threadbare ...

The nurses and administrators at Harry Hynes Hospice say the holiday season has a tendency to deepen all feelings. The nature ...

Two reporters were killed and several were wounded Tuesday in a gang attack in Haiti on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s ...