Oscar-winning British actor Maggie Smith, a star of stage and screen for more than seven decades, died in hospital in London ...

Climate campaigners on Friday hit out at stiff jail sentences given to two activists who threw soup at Vincent van Gogh's ...

New York's scandal-plagued Mayor Eric Adams arrived in court Friday where he was due to answer multiple fraud and bribery ...

The heirs of a prolific Dutch art collector are demanding that one of the country's top museums return 25 paintings, ...

An inflation metric closely watched by the US Federal Reserve crept lower Friday, according to government data, supporting ...

Stock markets rose Friday as slowing US and European inflation raised hopes of more aggressive interest rate cuts and China ...

Forty-eight percent of Americans are unfamiliar with their family’s cancer history, according to new research. A survey of ...

An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 million) for password-security breaches.

Pope Francis on Friday said he was "saddened" to learn about a little-known scandal that still troubles Belgium: the "forced ...

A luxury round-the-world cruise ship beset with technical delays and docked in rainy Belfast since May is finally set to depart, prompting mixed emotions among its passengers.

A paramilitary attack on a market in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher killed 18 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to ...

Britain's competition regulator on Friday cleared Amazon's investment of up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an American developer of artificial intelligence, following a short probe.