Vatican City- By Alvise Armellin - Pope Francis issued Friday new directives to prevent child sexual abuse within the Vatican City State, as had been promised after last month's anti-abuse summit....
Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian human rights group on Monday called on the Singapore government to suspend the death penalty on a Malaysian man who is set to be hanged on Friday. Michael Garing, 30, was...
Berlin - Mikaela Shiffrin clinched a record-tying fourth World Cup crystal globe for the season when she won Sunday's women's giant slalom. On the last day of the World Cup season in Soldeu,...
Addis Ababa - By Elias Meseret and Kristin Palitza, – Seven British, seven French, eight Italian and 18 Canadian nationals are among the 157 victims of an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash on Sunday....
New Delhi - India's Supreme Court on Friday ordered that a long-standing dispute between Hindus and Muslims over a holy site be settled through mediation, lawyers linked with the case said. ...
Los Angeles (tca/dpa) - In the weeks after Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic sweep through the Houston area - which resulted in chemical spills, fires, flooded storage tanks and damaged industrial...
Tel Aviv - Ahead of Albert Einstein's 140th birthday, 110 manuscript pages penned by the German scientist were unveiled by an Israeli university on Wednesday, providing a glimpse into the genius mind...
London - Social media giant Facebook removed the accounts of British far-right figurehead Tommy Robinson on Tuesday, but his YouTube channel remained active. Facebook said Robinson's pages had...
Vatican City (dpa) - Leaders of the Catholic Church have been their "own worst enemy" as they turned a blind eye to clergy child abuse, a bishop says in a Mass homily at the end of a Vatican summit...
Bogota (dpa) – A six-floor building where the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar once lived was blown up in the city of Medellin in an attempt to discourage interest in his life. The...