human welfare

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union on Thursday complained that Turkey wasn't doing enough to significantly decrease the number of people making the d...

BURIEN, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order aimed at curbing gun violence by improving data-sharing among government age...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The most powerful El Nino storm yet this week pushed onto the California coast Wednesday as police and outreach teams kept an eye o...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Authorities recovered the bodies Tuesday of at least 36 migrants who drowned off Turkey after their boats overturned in rough wa...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Since it opened in 2000, the Oresund bridge between Sweden and Denmark has been a towering symbol of European integration and hassle-...

BERLIN (AP) — Online retailer Amazon has pledged to donate its share of revenues from the sale of a song by the anti-Islam group PEGIDA to refugees, u...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday in a decades-l...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused archrival Saudi Arabia Sunday of promoting poverty and terrorism by continuing to bomb Ye...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace processes for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffer...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Released from prison after a presidential pardon for a sexual assault conviction, a popular Zambian singer has been charged with...

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A grand jury decided that neither sheriff's officials nor jailers committed a crime in the treatment of a black woman who died...

BERLIN (AP) — Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment, including plentiful supplies of beer, during his time at Landsberg prison in Germany following a...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union warned Thailand on Friday that it should "promptly" address the human rights and slavery issues that have dogged it...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Mother Teresa, the tiny, stooped nun who cared for the poorest of the poor in the slums of India and beyond, will be declared a sa...

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — A Syrian scientist whose harrowing, tragic story spurred supporting words from President Barack Obama and a successful fundraisi...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 39-year-old woman and a teenage boy are suspected in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found inside a storage unit i...

BEIRUT (AP) — The latest news on developments in the Syrian conflict. All times local: 6:45 p.m. Human Rights Watch says Russia and other nations tryi...

LEER, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's civil war took away everything that had been precious to Mary Nyak Chot. "All my children were killed. The youn...

CHICAGO (AP) — Irwin Weiner felt so good after heart surgery a few weeks before turning 90 that he stopped for a pastrami sandwich on the way home fro...

DALLAS (AP) — A new spike in unaccompanied Central American minors crossing illegally into the United States is pushing federal officials to open shel...