WASHINGTON - The White House may be bedecked with baubles and awash with Christmas cheer, but its most famous resident appears a tad disgruntled with Santa. When it comes to gifts, "I give nicer...

ATHENS - Hundreds of students demonstrated in Athens on Thursday to protest against a plan for policing at universities after a rector was injured in a violent protest over the weekend. Police in...

LOS ANGELES - The election Sunday of a second openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church drew a stern warning from the Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the 77 million Anglicans worldwide. The move...

PARIS - French investigators have been sent to another university as a probe widens into claims of irregularities surrounding the enrolment of Chinese students, the higher education ministry said...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie - The world's rich and powerful have long chosen London to defend their interests in court, but pressure is mounting for an overhaul in the English laws that saw it named "libel...

GENEVA- The United Nations warned Wednesday that attempts to halve global poverty will be doomed unless the world's estimated 650 million disabled people are pulled out of neglect and...

WASHINGTON - The US capital Washington took a major step toward legalizing gay marriage on Tuesday, with a 13-member panel on the city council overwhelmingly voting in favor of the move. The...

WASHINGTON - Police in a Washington suburb are in the awkward situation of having to admit they killed "Jesus" -- after they shot and killed the Rottweiler-pittbull mix who had attacked his owner....

RIYADH, Paul Handley - A Saudi lawyer said on Saturday he will sue the city of Jeddah, as thousands took to Facebook to blast authorities in a rare burst of open outrage after floods killed more...