Australia investigates
ROME — One of Pope Francis’ top advisers acknowledged he had heard that an Australian Catholic school teacher who serially abused students might be...
MOSCOW — Russian police today arrested a woman who was seen waving the severed head of a small child outside a Moscow subway station. She is suspected of killing the chi...
BEIRUT — A U.S. and Russian-brokered cease-fire brought relative calm to parts of Syria for the first time in years on Saturday despite numerous cease-fire breaches, but...
Afghan hospital hit in firefight
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to wounded survivors and relatives of the 42 Afghans ki...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers found the wreckage of a small plane carrying 23 people that crashed in bad weather today into a mountain in central Nepal, police said. All t...
Man is certain he will prevail
SEOUL, South Korea — The world champion of the ancient Chinese board game Go, South Korean Lee Sedol, expects to prevail in a match with Go...
MEXICO CITY — Pope Francis wraps up his trip to Mexico today with some of his most anticipated events: a visit in a Ciudad Juárez prison just days after a riot in anothe...
Guillain-Barre also on the rise
CUCUTA, Colombia — The doctor taps Zulay Balza’s knees with a hammer and she doesn’t feel a thing. She can’t squeeze his outstretched fing...
Pope Francis is welcomed upon his arrival Monday in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. Francis celebrated Mexico’s Indians with a visit to Chiapas state, a center of in...
MOSCOW — The former executive director of the Russian anti-doping agency, RUSADA, has died, two months after leaving his post amid Russia’s doping scandal.
RUSADA spoke...
