An early landscape by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the art world's most sought-after painters, sold for 7.07 million euros ($8.27 million) at an auction in Paris...
Pope Francis on Sunday visited a once-tranquil seaside community outside Rome that has become a power center of mafia violence and political corruption and...
Saudi Arabia announced another cabinet reshuffle Saturday with a heavy focus on culture and religion, as the kingdom undergoes a major image overhaul.
Pope Francis will meet with some of the world's oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming.
Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media...
At a recent screening of “Deadpool 2,” the audience didn’t get up when the end credits came up, patiently sitting through the scrolling names of visual...
There are two types of foreign policy: one based on the principle “might makes right,” and one based on the international rule of law. The United States wants...
Pope Francis Saturday urged one of the Catholic Church's biggest but most contentious missionary movements to respect different cultures and not try to...
With its rock-hewn ancient city of Petra, lunarlike landscape of Wadi Rum and a medical tourism drive, Jordan is luring back foreign visitors scared off by...
Mount Lebanon Investigative Judge Nadim Nashef Issued a decision Friday to release a suspect on the condition he memorizes a verse form the Quran by Monday,...
“The Man Who Stole Banksy,” a street art documentary that premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival Friday, spins a tale that mixes would-be art-world...
The pilot who safely landed a stricken Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday got her first flying experience in the U.S. Navy, touching down F-18 fighter jets...
About 200 aspiring exorcists gathered Monday for a weeklong course in casting out demons – including by cellphone if necessary – amid increased demand for the...
In a park near Tel Aviv's central bus station, dozens of African migrants waited for Israelis to offer them work, trying to eke out a living in a country...
Thousands of Christians are gathering in Jerusalem for an ancient fire ceremony that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.
Wearing traditional brown robes held in place by a white belt with three knots symbolizing vows of “poverty, chastity and obedience,” Franciscan friars have...
Hundreds of Christians are marking Easter by flocking to Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site where they believe Jesus was crucified,...
Pope Francis Sunday urged an end to the "carnage" in Syria, calling for access to humanitarian aid to be facilitated as well as "fitting conditions" for the...
Recent developments in Jerusalem and Palestine were central to President Michel Aoun’s Easter message Sunday, delivered ahead of a televised service from...
Steven Spielberg's action-adventure "Ready Player One" has topped the domestic box office over the holiday weekend.