BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of flights have been cancelled after public-sector workers walked off the jobs at airports in Frankfurt, Munich, Duesseldorf and several other German cities in a strike for higher wages. Germany's largest airline Lufthansa alone said it ...

Hollywood Stands Up To Cancer Presented By The Entertainment Industry Foundation And Event Chairs Jim Toth Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow on January 28, 2014 in Culver City, California. Charley Gallay—Getty Images for Entertainment I ...

2012 VP113, also known as "Biden," because of the VP in the provisional name. Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo—Carnegie Institution for Science. Astronomers found a new dwarf planet beyond Pluto they say could signal the existence of a much bigger ...

South Korea Reacts To North Korean Missile Launch Commuters pause to watch a television broadcast reporting the North Korean missile launch at Seoul Railway Station on March 26, 2014. Chung Sung-Jun—Getty Images ...

The West African country of Guinea is experiencing an outbreak of deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever, and a brief scare that the virus had appeared in Canada this morning was quickly ruled out. This is the first time Ebola has been detected in Guinea, and ...

Ebola Virus This micrograph reveals human hepatocytes infected with the Ebola virus, the cause of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The Ebola pathogen is a member of the Filoviridae family of RNA viruses. It is known to be spread through close contact with an ...

Prosecutors in the trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius rested their case Tuesday after 15 days of testimony, setting the stage for the accused murderer to take the witness stand himself when his defense begins. The trial of Pistorius, who is accused of ...

Prosecutors in the trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius rested their case Tuesday after 15 days of testimony, setting the stage for the accused murderer to take the witness stand himself when his defense begins. The trial of Pistorius, who is accused of ...

Prosecutors in the trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius rested their case Tuesday after 15 days of testimony, setting the stage for the accused murderer to take the witness stand himself when his defense begins. The trial of Pistorius, who is accused of ...

(MINYA, Egypt) — Egypt has opened another mass trial of Islamist suspects with 683 defendants facing charges of murder and sabotage, including the Muslim Brotherhood's top leader. The charges stem from rioting last August, sparked when security forces ...

An Apple subscription TV service sounds like a great idea -- but the companies who own the content don't seem to be all that excited. And so it begins again. More. 10 Things I Know to Be True About This Microsoft Hotmail Privacy CaseIf There's No iWatch in ...

An Apple subscription TV service sounds like a great idea -- but the companies who own the content don't seem to be all that excited. And so it begins again. More. 10 Things I Know to Be True About This Microsoft Hotmail Privacy CaseIf There's No iWatch in ...

Normally, Apple uses its glitzy new product introductions to quietly retire old models. When the company launched the iPad Air, for example, it nixed the fourth-generation iPad while keeping the iPad 2 around as the entry-level tablet. Now Apple has killed the ...

A court in Cairo sentenced a police officer to 10 years in jail Tuesday for his part in the deaths of 37 Islamists last year. Lieutenant Col Amr Farouk was jailed for his role in the asphyxiation deaths of members of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as their ...

PHILIPPINES-MALAYSIA-CHINA-MALAYSIAAIRLINES-TRANSPORT-ACCIDENT Students walk past a giant mural featuring missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 displayed on the grounds of their school in Manila's financial district of Makati on March 18, ...

11:19 AM ET. FRANCE-ENVIRONMENT-POLLUTION A view of the Eiffel Tower seen through thick smog, on March 14, 2014, in Paris. Patrick Kovarik—AFP/Getty Images. Health-threatening levels of smog in the city are spurring restrictions on automobiles.

Oscar Pistorius at the Pretoria High Court on March 13, 2014, in Pretoria, South Africa. Getty Images. Gruesome images of Reeva Steenkamp are briefly shown in court to the horror of her supporters and Pistorius. The murder trial of South African olympian ...

Mideast Israel Palestinians An Israeli is positioned at the Israel and Gaza border on Thursday, March 13, 2014. Tsafrir Abayov—AP. (JERUSALEM) — The Israeli military says two rockets have just been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. The barrage raised ...

Louisiana's longest-serving death row inmate was released Tuesday after almost 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Glenn Ford, 64, walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola after new evidence was revealed supporting Ford's ...

Mourners carry the coffin of Berkin Elvan during funeral ceremony in Okmeydani cemevi, an Alevi place of worship, in Istanbul, March 12, 2014. Murad Sezer—Reuters. Berkin Elvan, the teenager who died on Tuesday, months after being struck in the head by ...