VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis refused Wednesday to approve the ordination of married men or women as deacons to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon, sidestepping a...
BEIJING — The daily death toll in China from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the total fatalities above 1,000 Tuesday as the World Health Organization...
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand — As mourning began for the victims of Thailand’s worst mass shooting, the country counted its losses: a mother shot dead at the wheel of her...
BEIJING — The number of confirmed cases of the new virus has risen again in China while fatalities increased to 722 on Saturday, as the ruling Communist Party faced ange...
BEIJING — Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on a cruise ship that’s been quarantined in Yokohama harbor while the death toll in mainland China rose to 636...
LONDON — A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offenses strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy London street Sun...
BEIJING — The death toll in China’s virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington’s tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign national...
Virus spreads between people outside of China
GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a ...
BEIJING — The death toll rose Thursday to 170 with cases totaling 7,711 in the virus outbreak in China, as world health officials expressed concern the disease is starti...
75 years marked since Auschwitz
OSWIECIM, Poland — Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation, r...
