Refusing to back down amid a mounting battle over Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, the government of President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday that it will hold its own huge concert to rival one be...

Conservative European lawmakers who were barred from entering Venezuela this weekend are urging the European Union's top diplomat to suspend contacts with Nicolas Maduro's government. Esteban Go...

Two French pilots who made a mysterious escape from the Dominican Republic in 2015 are going on trial in southern France accused of international cocaine trafficking. Pascal Jean Fauret and Brun...

More than 300 Islamic State militants surrounded in a tiny area in eastern Syria are refusing to surrender to U.S.-backed Syrian forces and are trying to negotiate an exit, Syrian activists and a p...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declined Monday to say if he had nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, though he also emphasized he did not deny doing so. Trump's a...

The family of a British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State group said Sunday she has given birth to a baby boy. The family's lawyer said that 19-year-old Shamima Begum and her lates...

Paris authorities opened an investigation Sunday into anti-Semitic remarks hurled at a noted philosopher during a yellow vest protest in the capital, an incident that raised national concerns about...

Pope Francis is asking for prayers for this week's sex abuse summit at the Vatican, calling abuse an "urgent challenge of our time." He has summoned bishops to Rome to help him chart a way forwa...

Venezuela's opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido spoke to a crowd of supporters gathered in eastern Caracas on Saturday and vowed to continue to fight to bring in aid to his co...

Nigeria's electoral commission delayed the presidential election until February23, making the announcement a mere five hours before polls were set to open Saturday. It cited unspecified "challenges...

Chicago police released without charges two Nigerian brothers arrested on suspicion of assaulting "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett and said they have new evidence to investigate as a result of questi...

An employee of a manufacturing company opened fire at its suburban Chicago plant Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said. Aurora, Il...

American discountfootwearretailer Payless ShoeSource Inc plans to close all of its 2,300 stores after it files for bankruptcy later this month, according to sources familiar with the matter. The...

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre a year ago renewed the national debate on guns and school safety, turned some victims' parents and surviving students into political activists and ...

Dozens of polar bears have invaded the Novaya Zemlya islands in Russia's remote Arctic region, home to a few thousand people, prompting local authorities to declare a state of emergency. Footage...

Congress is set to resolve its clattering brawl with President Donald Trump in uncommonly bipartisan fashion as lawmakers prepare to pass a border security compromise providing a mere sliver of the...

British prosecutors say Prince Philip won't face charges in connection with a car collision that left two women injured. The decision came just days after Buckingham Palace said the 97-year-old ...

A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying personnel of Iran's elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force killed at least 20 people and wounded 20 in the country's southeast, state media reported...

A newborn girl with her umbilical cord still attached was found by a newspaper carrier in the middle of a rural road in California before dawn on Tuesday in near-freezing temperatures. Authorities ...

In the world of corrections, there are inmates who pose security risks, and then there's "El Chapo." Drug lord Joaquin Guzman has an unparalleled record of jailbreaks, having escaped two high-se...