The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis

Europe’s plan for spending more on defense is finding previously unimaginable political backing

Kim Kardashian thought she was going to be raped and killed when criminals broke into her bedroom in central Paris and tied her up and stole more than $6 million in jewelry

Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Muslim worshipper in a French mosque has turned himself in to police in Italy

China says six Filipinos landed on a tiny outcropping that both countries claim in the South China Sea

A violin made in 1941 inside the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was found to contain a hidden note from its maker, Polish Jewish prisoner Franciszek Kempa

Israel’s military campaign decimating the Gaza Strip has made pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous for Palestinian women and their babies

The United Nations’ highest court is opening hearings into Israel’s obligation to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed at least eight people overnight

Iran’s president has visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports

Saudi Arabia and Qatar say they will pay Syria’s outstanding debt to the World Bank, a move that is likely to make the international institution resume its support to the war-torn country

New Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen says that the U.S. isn’t showing Greenlanders proper respect