Police in Peru, the world’s top cocaine producer, can use all the help they can get in their fight against drug trafficking – and this time of year that includes Santa Claus.
So few of Mexico's vaquita porpoises remain that the international committee to protect the endangered species is preparing to catch and enclose as many as it can in a last-ditch effort to save it.
European Union officials say the EU will extend its sanctions against Russia for six more months to keep pressure on Moscow to respect the fragile peace agreement in Ukraine.
Brazilian prosecutors have charged former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and eight other people with corruption and money laundering in a case regarding the leader's relationship with mega-construction company Odebrecht.
The Latest on Europe's response to the large numbers of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have made their way to the continent (all times local): 5:30 p.m.
Austrian government officials have decided to transform the home where Adolf Hitler was born into a base for a charity, not tear down the property as some demanded.
German police have arrested a 47-year-old man from Belfast on suspicion of taking part in an Irish Republican Army attack on a British barracks in Germany 20 years ago.
Freshly freed from a French prison after years fighting embezzlement charges, Kazakh banker Mukhtar Ablyazov is pursuing what he calls his "life goal": regime change in his energy-rich Central Asian country.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that the Western alliance's main forum for dialogue with Russia, the NATO-Russia Council, will meet next week.
Pope Francis is to visit the Fatima shrine in Portugal next year on the centenary of the date when three shepherd children said the Virgin Mary first appeared to them above an olive tree.
About 20 people believed to have links to a criminal gang remained kidnapped Thursday in southern Mexico by local residents who say they are tired of being at their mercy and are now taking matters into their own hands.
The Russian military has scoffed at a top U.S. general's suggestion that military equipment seized by the Islamic State group in the Syrian city of Palmyra could pose a threat to the U.S.-led coalition.
A Swedish court has approved the extradition to Germany of one of Sweden's most notorious prisoners to stand trial in the killing of a Jewish woman in Frankfurt in 1992.
