Queen Letizia wore an outfit in her favorite shade of white on Thursday to the ceremony at which her husband, King Felipe VI, was proclaimed Spain's new monarch. The outfit, characterized by simplicity and straight lines, was in a color that Queen Letizia has ...

Costa Rica upset all expectations Saturday with a surprise 3-1 win over a stunned Uruguay in the Group D kickoff at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. With goals by Joel Campbell, Giancarlo Gonzalez and Marcos Ureña, the Ticos pulled off one of the greatest ...

Garbiñe Muguruza scored a surprise straight-set upset of favorite Serena Williams in the second round of the French Open on Wednesday. Williams, the defending champion and winner of 17 Grand Slam singles titles, fell 6-2, 6-2 to a 20-year tennis player ...

Hundreds of pro-Russian demonstrators seized the regional radio and television center in Donetsk, a city in the like-named eastern Ukrainian region, on Sunday, media reports said. The protesters broke into the communications center and raised the flag of ...

Hundreds of pro-Russian demonstrators seized the regional radio and television center in Donetsk, a city in the like-named eastern Ukrainian region, on Sunday, media reports said. The protesters broke into the communications center and raised the flag of ...

George Clooney, one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, is engaged to British attorney Amal Alamuddin, People magazine reported on its Web site Sunday. The couple got engaged "not that long ago, I think," a source told the magazine. "George and ...

George Clooney, one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, is engaged to British attorney Amal Alamuddin, People magazine reported on its Web site Sunday. The couple got engaged "not that long ago, I think," a source told the magazine. "George and ...

TOKYO (AP) – Data in a widely heralded stem-cell research paper was falsified, a Japanese government-funded laboratory said Tuesday, as the lead researcher accused of the malpractice denied any wrongdoing. The research from the Riken Center for ...

The Malaysian government released new satellite images Wednesday of 122 objects from the area in the southern Indian Ocean where Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which had 239 people aboard, may have gone down. "We still cannot confirm that it is ...

The government in Moscow will recognize Crimea's independence in a bilateral pact before turning to consideration of the territory's request to join the Russian Federation, the speaker of Russia's parliament said Monday. More than 96 percent of Crimeans ...

The strategic city of Yabroud, the last bastion of the anti-government rebels in the Al Qalamun border region, has been brought under control by the Syrian regime, the armed forces said Sunday. "The army managed to reestablish stability and security in the ...

Swedish journalist Nils Horner was fatally shot Tuesday in what is regarded as a generally secure area of the Afghan capital, Swedish Radio said. Horner, 51, was interviewing people in the street when two unknown persons came up behind him and shot him ...

At least 34 people died and 150 were wounded, including several police officers, in a suicide car-bomb attack carried out Sunday on a police checkpoint in the Iraqi city of Al Hila, a security forces source told Efe. The suicide bomber detonated the ...

The history lesson that is "12 Years a Slave" lived up to predictions making it the favorite to win the Oscar for Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards, a gala also marked by the historic success of Mexico's Alfonso Cuaron, the first Latino to take the director's ...

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was busted recently by Mexican Marines in the Pacific Ocean resort town of Mazatlán, Mexico. El Chapo, also known as “Shorty,” was ranked as one of the richest men in the world by Forbes magazine, because of a fortune ...

At least 15 Iraqi soldiers were killed Tuesday in an attack on a military post located in the northern province of Nineveh. The attackers, suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda, slit the throats of most of the troops and then fled the area, a security source in ...