A black Wisconsin state senator says she used controversial language during an argument with a black Milwaukee bank teller because he wouldn't help her and had deferred her questions to his boss

UAE denies accusations of overreaching in Yemen after it deployed forces, took over airport on Socotra island

A senior Yemeni official says the alliance with UAE might be heading to an end after its forces were deployed to a Yemeni island, recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site, without prior consultation with the government

Pope Francis is urging one of the Catholic Church's biggest missionary movements to respect different cultures and not try to conquer souls as it spreads the faith around the world

The union representing thousands of housekeepers in Las Vegas says Caesars Entertainment has rejected a proposal to change language in new contracts that addresses "Do Not Disturb" signs

San Francisco supervisors gave historic cultural status to a gay and leather neighborhood in the city's South of Market district, hoping to protect it from rising rents and gentrification

Supervisors in San Francisco have unanimously approved a resolution authorizing a gay and leather cultural district in the city's South of Market neighborhood

The United Nations cultural agency has called on Colombia not to commercially exploit the 300-year-old wreck of the Spanish galleon San Jose, which is believed to contain a cargo worth billions of dollars

Sudan's official news agency says archeologists have reopened burial chambers in an ancient pyramid north of the capital, Khartoum

Enter the medina's gates, walk into a maze of long, covered passageways and step into another world