The checkpoints started just outside of the east Sri Lanka village, the strictest seen in the days after Islamic State-aligned militants launched suicide attacks that killed over 250 people.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is in the hospital suffering from renal colic on the day he planned to present his candidates for European Parliament elections.

The slowdown in the eurozone economy appears to have come to an end.

A Kansas sheriff and undersheriff were shot, one during a traffic stop and one during a shootout at a home.

Energy producer BP says first quarter earnings fell 9% amid lower oil prices.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg will kick off Facebook’s annual F8 conference Tuesday with what are expected to be more details about his new 'privacy-focused' vision for the social network.

An international charity says an estimated 45,000 children in Iraq who were born under the rule of the Islamic State group are being excluded from society because the government denies them documentation and ID papers.

Attorneys for a man accused of killing his girlfriend, her family and his parents in Louisiana this January have asked for a pause in the prosecution of the case until they can get funding.

The Latest on the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka (all times local):

Police say at least four people have been killed and several injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in southern Serbia.