ROME (AP) — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates ...

New York City police say a taxi driver who hit six pedestrians when he jumped a curb in Manhattan on Christmas Day was having ...

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north ...

Pilgrims are lining up to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as Christmas marks ...

Palestinian Authority forces are clashing with armed groups in the occupied West Bank in a rare crackdown aimed at restoring ...

Worshippers walk down the stairs next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, in ...

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news.

Azerbaijan is observing a nationwide day of mourning for the victims of the air crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about a possible cause of the crash ...