CAIRO — A U.S. airstrike has killed al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, who commanded its powerful Yemeni affiliate, dealing the global network its biggest blow since the killing o...
VATICAN CITY — The archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., and a deputy bishop resigned today after prosecutors there charged the archdiocese with having failed to protect childr...
TBILISI, Georgia — Rescue workers in the Georgian capital were still searching today for more than 20 people and an undetermined number of potentially dangerous animals ...
First time foreigners can directly invest there
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s stock market, valued at $585 billion, opened up to direct foreign investment ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has created a new Vatican tribunal section to hear cases of bishops accused of failing to protect children from sexually abusive priests, the...
Obama still optimistic
ELMAU, Germany — Despite setbacks that have raised doubts about his policy, President Barack Obama voiced optimism today that the Islamic State wou...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Pope Francis urged Bosnia’s Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put the “deep wounds” of their past behind them and work together for a pea...
Saturday visit inspires city
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — For centuries, Sarajevo was known as “Europe’s Jerusalem,” where Christianity, Islam and Judaism lived in har...
RAANANA, Israel — In 1933, the promising young Jewish-German violinist Ernest Drucker left the stage midway through a Brahms concerto in Cologne at the behest of Nazi of...
GENEVA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry plans to fly to Boston today after staying overnight in a Swiss hospital to receive treatment for a broken leg incurred in a ...
