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"2017 for Spain has been, without a doubt, a difficult year for our commonwealth," King Felipe VI said

Only five of Jacob Taggart's fingers fully formed. Now he has a prosthetic Stormtrooper hand that allows him to grip, hold and throw objects.        

Sometimes, science fact is stranger than science fiction. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station watched "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" during a movie night. This photo of the screening for the three American, two...

The blaze was put under control Sunday morning although smoke continued to billow from the building

More than 120 people are dead and 160 are missing

The nation is the first to follow President Trump in deciding to change the site of its embassy from Tel Aviv.

Two people were killed in a head-on crash involving two vehicles in Homer Glen Saturday night, according to the Will County Coroner's Office. Simone Radd, 18, of Homer Glen was the driver of one of the vehicles and was p...

Palestinians are preparing to celebrate Christmas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the historic birthplace of Jesus, amid anger over Trump's Jerusalem declaration

A man leaving a South Loop strip mall on Christmas Eve shot a man who tried to rob him, authorities said. Around 6:15 p.m. Sunday, a 31-year-old man was leaving a store in the 1200 block of South Jefferson Street when he...

Citing North Korea's growing nuclear and ballistic missile threat, the Trump administration is moving to vastly expand the problem-plagued homeland missile defense system despite warnings that the planned upgrades may no...

Monarch to focus on 'warmth, familiarity and love' of home as she remembers London and Manchester atrocities The Queen will remember this year's "appalling" terrorist attacks in London and Manchester that claimed 41 live...

It is the 62nd year for the wildly popular program run by the U.S. and Canadian militaries

Noting that Mary and Joseph arrived in a land "where there was no place for them," Francis drew parallels to contemporary time

Alexei Navalny has threatened to lead a boycott if barred from running. Navalny is implicitly barred from running for office because of a conviction in a fraud case which has been viewed as political retribution

Nearly a third of all new cars sold in the country this year will be plug-in models and experts expect that share to skyrocket While tourists explore Oslo's history in the grounds of the centuries-old Akershus fortress, ...

The president has been urging women to have three babies each, as his divided country faces a very European problem Didem Sen was living in Nişantaşı, a wealthy Istanbul neighbourhood mostly inhabited by members of th...

Julian Assange’s Twitter account is missing. The controversial WikiLeaks founder’s account mysteriously went dark early Christmas morning. It wasn’t clear whether Twitter suspended Assange’s account or whether th...

Mr. Trump tweeted out the video, which was pre-recorded at the White House before he left for his holiday vacation at Mar-a-Lago in Florida

An LA psychologist who thinks President Trump's tax bill is a load of crap says he presented Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with a stinker of a Christmas present, according to a report. Robby Strong told AL.com he drop...

Without any idea where their relatives are or the ability to search for them, people around the world turn to international family tracing teams for help Six months after he arrived in the UK, Hassan's calls to his famil...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said it is a "pipe dream" for the United States to think it will give up its nuclear weapons, and called the latest U.N. sanctions to target the country "an act of war" that violates its...

'There is nothing more pathetic in life than a former president,' said John Quincy Adams - but a year on, what to make of our most newly minted ex? There's the library. There's the memoir. There might be a foundation. Ma...