Picasso painting, Giacometti sculpture could break auction records

Experts say the once unthinkable prices are driven by artworks' investment value

• May 11, 2015

Report: British sgt. arrested after wife's parachute fails

Woman reportedly survives 4,000-foot fall after main parachute doesn't deploy and reserve parachute malfunctions

• May 11, 2015

Is Saudi king's absence at Obama-hosted summit a snub?

Two days after White House announced he would be there, King Salman drops out of gathering of Arab leaders amid several Mideast crises

• May 11, 2015

Tycoon gives French vacation to 6,400 workers

Trip -- essentially a $23M bonus -- for Chinese company's salespeople started in Paris and ended with a parade on France's Cote d'Azur

• May 11, 2015

6K refugees from Myanmar abandoned in small boats

Aid group warns smugglers have left dozens of boats full of Muslim migrants adrift, and global community seems unable or unwilling to help

• May 11, 2015

Tension high ahead of Yemen cease-fire

Moroccan fighter jet goes missing days before Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition and Yemen rebels have agreed to halt fighting

• May 11, 2015

Prince Harry would "love to have kids right now"

As he stands at a personal "crossroads," the young, eligible British royal opens up about life and love in a wide-ranging and personal interview

• May 11, 2015

The shrinking Gulf states summit

How significant will the Saudi monarch's absence from the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting be this week at Camp David?

• May 10, 2015

A Catholic Communist? Raul Castro says maybe

Leader of Cuba says he's so impressed with Pope Francis, he may "go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking"

• May 10, 2015

Free from Boko Haram, Nigeria girls face harassment

The taunts are so bad - "Boko Haram wives" - some girls once kidnapped by Islamic extremists have fled their town and families

• May 10, 2015

Yemen rebels agree to five-day cease-fire

More than a month after relentless Saudi-led airstrikes, the Houthis and their allies try to make way for humanitarian aid

• May 10, 2015

Five dead after Swiss gunman kills in-laws, self

Police say a man separated from his wife killed her parents, brother and a neighbor before turning the gun on himself

• May 10, 2015

​Italy's birth dearth

Italian women are having fewer babies (if any at all); the decline in birth rate signifies major changes for the nation's culture - and its attitude towards immigration

• May 10, 2015

Raul Castro warmly received at the Vatican by pope

Francis will visit Cuba in September; Castro thanks pontiff for helping thaw relations between U.S. and Cuba

• May 10, 2015

Widespread discrimination against gays in sports: study

Thousands of athletes in six countries asked about bullying and harassment in sports; U.S. ranked highest for discrimination in some areas

• May 10, 2015

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