BEIJING — It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama...
East, West bridged gap 25 years ago
BERLIN — It's been nearly 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but Harald Jaeger has no trouble remembering exactly where he wa...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s top bioethics official Tuesday called “reprehensible” the assisted suicide of an American woman suffering terminal brain cancer who stated s...
Traditional West African funerals, at which mourners extensively touch and kiss the dead, are “superspreader” events for transmission of the Ebola virus, says a new stud...
But divisions in church exposed
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis praised retired Pope Benedict XVI as a “great pope” amid the continuing fallout from a meeting of bishops that...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Japan is not exactly Ebola country, but when a high-level delegation from Tokyo arrived in Pyongyang this week, two of the first people they met...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The gunman who shot and killed a soldier in plain daylight then stormed Canada’s Parliament once complained that a Vancouver mosque he atte...
Fears raised in Canada
OTTAWA, Ontario — Two deadly attacks in three days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country was being targe...
SYDNEY — A second ship was preparing to join the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in a remote patch of the Indian Ocean today, as Malaysia’s defense minister expres...
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia — Canadian coast guard officials secured a towline to a Russian container ship carrying hundreds of tons of fuel as it drifted without po...
