Flash floods tore through towns in southwest France, turning waterways into raging torrents that killed at least 13 people, nine of them in just one town, authorities said Monday. People had to be helicoptered to safety from the roofs of their homes as overnight storms […]
A teenage girl was injured and a woman was taken hostage on Monday at a train station in Germany in what police say may have been a foiled terrorist attack.
A prosecutor says a hunter shot and killed a cyclist in the French Alps in what appears to be an accident.
The government of Saudi Arabia on Sunday denied any involvement in the disappearance of Washington Post contributing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned that any sanctions against the oil-rich kingdom would be met with “greater action” and possible exploding oil prices.
A small plane has crashed in central Germany, killing two women and a boy.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had quite the traumatic experience when their very expensive private jet was hit by lightning mid-flight.
In a setback for the global #MeToo movement, a former member of Austria’s parliament was convicted of libel this month against a man she publicly accused of sexually harassing her on Facebook.
Pope Francis has defrocked two Chilean bishops who have been caught up in the country’s widening sexual abuse crisis, the Vatican said on Saturday.
At least seven climbers died when a violent snowstorm destroyed their camp on a Himalayan peak in western Nepal.
Esther Chavez vividly remembers the day in 1980 when a voice through a university loudspeaker delivered the news: San Salvador’s Catholic Archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, had been fatally shot.
A suicide bomber detonated in the middle of a restaurant in the Somali town of Baidoa and a grenade struck a hotel nearby, leaving at least 11 people dead and more than 10 wounded, authorities said Saturday.
Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people, including a dozen children at a school, officials said Saturday.
