The European Union has been called the most ambitious political project in history, but it faces a very troubled future. And in politics, as in boxing, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Egyptian police are guarding Coptic churches across the country as they celebrate Christmas.
An Islamic court in Pakistan has decreed that blaspheming Islam's prophet should be punishable only by death.
The United States will not send troops to help the Iraqi government re-take two cities captured by al Qaeda.
Peace talks over the violence in South Sudan have stalled, Ethiopia officials announced Monday
Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour made a rare visit to the Coptic pope in Cairo.
Coalition partners threather to topple the Israeli government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caves to American pressure in peace talk deal.
Gennady Terkun, a former Satanist and Russian hit man, has been on a mission to bring peace to the southwest corner of Russia.
A suicide bomb exploded at a bus station Monday morning in the Russian city of Volgograd.
Fifty-two scientists and tourists rescued from a trapped vessel in the Antarctic still can't get home.