Tensions mounted in Venezuela ahead of strongman Nicolas Maduro's swearing-in ceremony, with Caracas vowing Monday to arrest ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

Writer-director Jeff Baena, whose darkly comedic independent films included "The Little Hours" and who was married to his ...

Italian prisons should create “love rooms” so inmates can have sex with their wives or partners, say rights activists.

Pilgrims who visit Rome during the jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors.

Cincinnati is known as the City of Seven Hills. Turns out, the city's highest altitude isn't even at one of those hills.

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

Giuseppe Terragni, the modernist architect, served Mussolini and fascism, but to many, the appeal of his buildings has outlived the taint of their history.

By the time December rolls around each year, it feels like the past 12 months have seen it all. In particular for 2024, they ...