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Paris' deputy mayor said first responders had focused some of their attention to saving the art and priceless artifacts in the cathedral.

A series of recent incidents in Premier League stadiums and at non-league level has highlighted football's enduring problem with racism. The Guardian's Jacob Steinberg investigates whether the authorities are taking it s...

If you're sad when you see stories about dead whales washing ashore with dozens of pounds of plastic in their bellies or feel guilty when you forget to bring your reusable bags to the grocery store, there's a good reason...

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday night said he felt Rep. Ilhan Omar needs to do a "better job in speaking to the Jewish community." Sanders made the remarks during a packed hour-long Fox News town hall in Bethlehem, Pa., in...

Taiwan is not intimidated by China's military drills this week, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday, after the latest Chinese military maneuvers were denounced by a senior U.S. official as "coercion" and a threat to s...

The structure of the Notre Dame Cathedral has been saved from a massive fire that had threatened to gut the 800-year-old belovedlandmark.        

Why is it that a Catholic cathedral in flames provokes more public grieving than the mass suffering and death of humans?

The parents of a Swedish programmer suspected of plotting to blackmail Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno over his abandonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange say their son is innocent and that his rights have been v...

The Latest on developments In Libya (all times local): 5:10 p.m. A proposed U.N. resolution demands that all parties in Libya immediately de-escalate the fighting and commit to a cease-fire. …

The story of a "mob" attack against the woman appears to have gotten worse.

Gloucestershire academy sacks Kristie Higgs over posts about classes at son's primary school A Christian secondary school assistant has been dismissed after she posted an online petition against LGBT issues being taught ...

Danquirs Franklin, 27, was shot dead by a police officer on March 25. New body cam footage shows the shooting.

Agnew, who says he does not support apartheid, gave speech at Springbok Club meeting A leading Ukip MEP made a speech to a pro-apartheid club of expat South Africans which has far-right links and calls Nelson Mandela a t...

A Moscow court convicted a Norwegian man on Tuesday of spying on Russian navy submarines and sentenced him to 14 years in a hard labor camp. The ruling could likely strain an already fragile relationship between the Krem...

Poems believed to have been written by the Rebecca author in her 20s were found by auctioneers before a sale of intimate letters A handful of youthful poems by Daphne du Maurier have been found in an archive of letters, ...

The body of the one-year-old girl was found in a charred car that was abandoned by her father during a police chase.

The Arkona facility is operated by German utility Eon and Equinor of Norway about 22 miles northeast of Germany's Baltic island of Ruegen.        

Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral went up in flames on Monday evening, a blaze that devastated the Parisian landmark, destroying its wooden-beamed roof and collapsing the iconic spire. It is a searing loss for Paris and Fran...

A former gymnastics coach in Louisiana who admitted molesting more than a dozen boys -- including some he promised would improve at the sport if they relented -- has been sentenced to 65 years in prison, authorities said...

Syria and Iran say the United States is waging "economic terrorism" against countries that have different opinions and should pursue its aims through diplomacy instead. Syrian state news agency SANA …

The man charged with hurling a 5-year-old boy off a third-floor balcony at Minnesota's Mall of America admitted to investigators that he went there specifically "looking for someone to kill," according to a criminal comp...

Finland's outgoing prime minister says he will step down as head of the Center Party, which had one of its worst performances in decades in Sunday parliamentary election. Juha Sipila …