Journalist beheaded
WASHINGTON — In a horrifying act of revenge for U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, militants with the Islamic State extremist group have beheaded Ameri...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Three relatives of Pope Francis died and a fourth was in serious condition Tuesday after their car crashed on a provincial highway in Argentina...
Militants deny claim
BAGHDAD — Boosted by two days of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces today wrested back control of the country’s largest dam from Islamic milit...
SEOUL, South Korea — Pope Francis wrapped up his first trip to Asia today by challenging Koreans — from the North and the South — to reject the “mindset of suspicion and...
SEOUL, South Korea — Pope Francis beatified 124 Korean martyrs Saturday, telling hundreds of thousands of people who turned out for his open-air Mass that their ancestor...
BEIJING — Days after Chinese officials blocked Catholics from seeing the pope in South Korea, it’s still unclear who was behind the action or why it was taken.
Experts ...
DAKAR, Senegal — Beds in Ebola treatment centers are filling up faster than they can be provided, evidence that an outbreak in West Africa is far more severe than the nu...
DAEJEON, South Korea — Pope Francis called for Catholics to combat the allure of materialism that stifles the spirit today during his five-day trip to South Korea. In th...
BAGHDAD — The decision by Iraq’s embattled Nouri al-Maliki to step down as prime minister revived hopes today for the formation of a new government that could take on a ...
Mission spurs security concern
MOSCOW — A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine today, but Ukraine said it would deny the mis...
