BEIJING, March 25, 2009 (AFP) - At least four villagers died and more than 10 were hospitalised in central China after drinking grain liquor containing a highly toxic form of alcohol, state press...
VATICAN CITY, March 23, 2009 (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI returned Monday to the Vatican after his first visit to Africa as pontiff with the row over his remarks about condoms "aggravating the spread of...
A Greek fishing boat caught an ancient bronze statue in its nets as it trawled in the Aegean sea, the country's culture ministry said on Monday.
The statue is the torso of a horseman, clad in a...
LUANDA, March 22, 2009 (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI called for forgiveness and peace in Africa at a massive mass in civil war-scarred Angola Sunday and expressed his sorrow for the deaths of two girls...
GEORGETOWN, March 22, 2009 (AFP) - World Health Assembly President, Guyana's Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy, on Saturday condemned Pope Benedict's call for ending condom use in the fights against...
WICHITA, March 22, 2009 (AFP) - One of the few doctors who still performs late-term abortions in the United States, George Tiller has been picketed, bombed and shot in the arms.
On Monday, he...
Thousands of people, including the acclaimed author of mafia expose "Gomorrah," marched in southern Italy's Naples Saturday against decades of mafia violence that has killed some 900 people.
"The...
European police were Saturday seeking a three-year-old girl in the middle of an international tug-of-love after her French father said his estranged Russian wife had kidnapped her.
Jean-Michel...
PARIS, March 21, 2009 (AFP) - More than four in 10 French Catholics want the pope to step down and most want the church to change its stance on abortion, divorce and homosexuality, according to a...
The United States has deported a Nazi death camp guard to Austria despite Vienna's warnings that it was legally barred from prosecuting him, US and Austrian officials said Thursday.
The US Justice...
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