Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has saved 472 people who were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe over the past two days.

Officials say a Florida deputy has been fired, and nine people he arrested on drug charges have been released from jail.

Officials have fired a New Jersey school bus aide who was captured on video using profanities and threatening a 10-year-old boy.

Maine’s giant spinning ice disk that quickly gained international fame seems to have met its end.

Hundreds of striking Greek civil servants, mostly school teachers, are marching through central Athens to protest proposed new hiring criteria for state school teachers.

Kei Nishikori wants to extend a Grand Slam sequence at the Australian Open. He’s not making it easy.

Police say the body of a 62-year-old German tourist has been was found beneath a tree in the searing heat of the central Australia Outback eight days after she was reported missing.

Many from Metallica and the Foo Fighters rocked on with electrifying performances as family members gave heartfelt speeches in memory of the late Chris Cornell.

The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe said Thursday it is 'alarmed' by credible reports that security forces are targeting and beating activists and labor leaders after a local doctors’ rights group said it had treated 68 gunshot cases and scores of other cases of assault.

Representatives of Yemen’s warring sides are meeting for a second day in the Jordanian capital for talks on implementing a prisoner exchange agreed to in Sweden last month.