LOS ANGELES- A US student whose "appalling" anti-Asian and anti-Japanese rant went viral on YouTube announced Friday she was quitting college, after receiving death threats. The University of...

VATICAN CITY- The Vatican on Friday welcomed as "historic" a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said displaying crucifixes in schools in Italy did not breach the rights of...

MOSCOW, Nicolas Miletitch- Japan risks harming the mental health of those affected by its quake-damaged nuclear plant if it repeats the error of the Soviet Union after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in...

WASHINGTON- Mathematics geeks turned irrational as they celebrated Pi Day Monday, the day of the year which represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi -- 3.14. Pi Day was...

LONDON- A British baker has cooked up a unique tribute to Prince William and Kate Middleton after spending 80 hours creating a cake bearing a likeness of the soon-to-be-married couple. Michelle...

PARIS- Women took to the streets worldwide Tuesday to mark the 100th International Women's Day, with protests against honour killings, their objectification in Italy and killings in Ivory Coast....

BERLIN, Simon Sturdee - Germany's popular defense minister dramatically quit on Tuesday over accusations he cheated on his doctorate, robbing Chancellor Angela Merkel's government of one of its...

PRAGUE- Czech novelist, short story writer and Holocaust survivor Arnost Lustig died in Prague on Saturday, aged 84, after fighting blood cancer for five years, the CTK news agency reported. Born...

JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- Jerusalem wasn't on the agenda for a group of American students in Cairo to study in a Muslim, Arabic-speaking environment but the upheaval in Egypt, and their US schools,...