Malta's armed forces saved 180 migrants in two rescue operations in the Mediterranean Monday, less than 24 hours after picking up another group of 69. The army said a patrol boat picked up 28 migrants from a dinghy 114 km south-west of Malta and another 152 packed onboard a wooden...

House of Representatives Democrats will introduce legislation this week intended to end a partial U.S. government shutdown and fund the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8, including $1.3 billion for border security but not the $5 billion President Donald Trump has demanded for a...

 NASA spacecraft Tuesday flew past the most distant world ever studied by humankind, Ultima Thule, a frozen relic of the early solar system that could reveal how planets formed. "Go New Horizons!" said lead scientist Alan Stern as a crowd cheered at the Johns Hopkins Applied...

Germany's foreign ministry said Monday it was providing consular aid to a German man barred from leaving Turkey after the authorities accused him of supporting a terrorist organization on social media. German media reported that Adnan Sutcu, 56, was detained shortly after arriving in...