A polar bear was shot dead after attacking a German cruise ship worker on Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the authorities said Sunday. The unnamed man in his 40's suffered head injuries shortly after landing on Spitzbergen island. He was accompanying a tourist...

Pope Francis is urging everyone to combat the "shameful crime" of human trafficking, noting that it's often linked to migrant smuggling. In remarks Sunday to the public in St. Peter's Square, Francis decried that many adults and children are trafficked into slavery for forced labor, sex...

Iran's top security body has approved the release of opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for seven years for leading mass protests in 2009, a family member told local media. "I have heard that the decision to lift the house arrest was approved...

Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, trying to move beyond a bitter dispute over migrant policy that threatened the coalition, has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, a poll showed Sunday. The Emnid poll published in Bild am Sonntag showed Merkel's Christian...