KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Dutch tourist who survived a tiger attack in the jungles of southwestern Nepal over the weekend by climbing a tree said today that he’s lucky to be ...
Pope Francis says Mass in trio of native languages
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Pope Francis is celebrating Mexico’s Indians today with a visit to heavily indigen...
Francis begins Mexico visit
MEXICO CITY — Pope Francis kicks off his first trip to Mexico on Saturday with speeches to the country’s political and ecclesial elites, ridin...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Workers have pulled out 114 bodies from the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed in an earthquake in Taiwan’s oldest city, leaving on...
Church leaders meeting there
HAVANA — The heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches will hold a historic meeting today in the threadbare international air...
Year of the Monkey begins
BEIJING — Chinese flocked to temples and fairs to pray for good health and fortune today, the first day of the lunar new year.
In Beijing, hund...
Modified embryos will be destroyed
LONDON — In a landmark decision that some ethicists warned is a step down the path toward “designer babies,” Britain gave scientists ap...
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. airstrikes on a remote region of Afghanistan have destroyed a radio station operated by the Islamic State group, American and Afghan officials ...
Zika spreading in the Americas
GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared an international emergency Monday over the explosive spread of the mosquito-borne Zika viru...
Netanyahu helps push plan through
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Cabinet voted Sunday to allow non-Orthodox Jewish prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a move advocates said ma...
