Troops retreat after long siege
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve today, a day after Ukrainian forces began wi...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican did something it has never done before by giving a group of U.S. gay and lesbian Catholics VIP seats at Pope Francis’ weekly general audience ...
Denmark mourns shooting victims
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Two men suspected of helping the gunman behind the deadly attacks in Copenhagen were jailed for 10 days today as Dan...
RIO DE JANEIRO — The show went on Sunday at the world’s most-celebrated Carnival parades, despite a tropical deluge that soaked thousands of feather-clad dancers, wildly...
Beheadings spur action
CAIRO — Egyptian warplanes struck Islamic State targets in Libya today in swift retribution for the extremists’ beheading of a group of Egyptian Ch...
TORONTO — Canadian police foiled a plot by two suspects who were planning to go to a mall and kill as many people as they could before committing suicide on Valentine’s ...
It says spanking children not OK
VATICAN CITY — Members of Pope Francis’ sex abuse commission have criticized his remarks that it is OK for parents to spank their childre...
Ukraine peace deal hammered out
MINSK, Belarus — Guns would fall silent, heavy weapons would pull back from the front and Ukraine would trade a broad autonomy for the ea...
Ex-Guantanamo inmate worked with IS militants
WASHINGTON — During six years behind bars at Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rauf insisted he was a lowly Taliban foot soldier who del...
CAIRO — Egypt’s Cabinet has indefinitely suspended the national soccer league after at least 22 fans were killed in a stampede and clashes with police outside a Cairo st...
