Two major studies last year offered some insight into the role carbs play in making us fat, but unfortunately they don’t settle the question of how best to lose weight in 2019.

Spanish police have discovered two African migrants who were trying to enter the enclave of Melilla hidden inside a pair of mattresses.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appealed his conviction and prison sentence handed down by an Islamabad anti-graft tribunal last week.

Russian emergency officials say the confirmed death toll from the collapse of a section of an apartment building has risen to seven, and 37 residents of the building are still missing.

An attorney says an Egyptian activist is waiting to return to prison after an appeals court upheld a two-year sentence against her for posting a video online in which she criticized the government and decried sexual harassment.

Pope Francis has ushered in the New Year with an ode to motherhood, reminding the faithful that a mother’s example and embrace is the only antidote to today’s disjointed world of solitude and misery.

Sudan’s state news agency says President Omar al-Bashir has ordered an investigation into 'recent events' in the country, a reference to two weeks of violent protests against his 29-year rule.

British counterterrorism police are questioning a man accused of stabbing three people at a Manchester railway station on New Year’s Eve.

The leader of Israel’s Labor Party has broken up the country’s largest opposition bloc, the latest political upheaval ahead of April elections.

Rafael Nadal wants to make a little go a long way in 2019.