ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is returning an award given to him by a Jewish American group i...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A powerful cousin of outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai was assassinated by a suicide bomber hiding...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Shells smashed into a residential neighborhood of Donetsk on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces intensified thei...

ATLANTA (AP) -- The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died.Theodore VanKirk died...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A 3,200-year-old mummy mask at the center of a years-long custody fight will stay at the St. Louis Art Museum no...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Heads of state from around Latin America are converging in Caracas for a long-delayed trade summit, a s...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union says it is increasing its Syria aid by 175 million euros ($235 million) to help those most aff...

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook much of eastern Mexico on Tuesday, but there were no reports of damage or injur...

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Yusuke Matsui started strong but saved the best for last on Tuesday, belting a two-run, 10th-inning home run ...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Andrew Riley won the 110-meter hurdles gold Tuesday to complement his teammate Kemar Bailey-Cole's 100-m...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- The release of carbon dioxide into the air from power plant smokestacks to the tailpipe on cars could pose ...

LONDON (AP) -- It's a typical urban routine: Sit on the subway, headphones in, fiddling with the smartphone to avoid eye contact w...

PASADENA, California (AP) -- The odometer of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has hit 25.01 miles (40.25 kilometers), breaking the re...

PARIS (AP) -- Rats are on the rampage in the elegant garden of the Louvre Museum, so bold they romp on the grass in broad daylight...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stop sunbathing and using indoor tanning beds, the acting U.S. surgeon general warned in a report released Tues...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- There's something beyond delivering a set packed with her hits that's got Aretha Franklin jazzed about Amer...

While news on the ongoing standoff between Ukraine and Russia made headlines, a Russian family living on Etorofu Island questioned...

TAKASAKI, Gunma -- The Gunma Prefectural Government has rejected a citizens group's request to keep a monument commemorating Korea...

The government has started to consider legally requiring three major city gas companies -- Tokyo Gas Co., Osaka Gas Co. and Toho G...

A British court has ordered a Japanese child taken abroad by the child's mother to be returned to Japan under the Hague Convention...