Critic calls effort 'gesture'
Pope Francis says his plans to meet with a group of sex abuse victims is part of an effort to “go forward” with “zero tolerance” in confront...
BEIJING — China’s government plans to take 6 million older, polluting vehicles off the road this year in an effort to revive stalled progress toward cleaning up smog-cho...
AMMAN, Jordan — Pope Francis thanked Jordan on Saturday for welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, calling for an “urgent,” peaceful...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s junta has commandeered every TV channel for round-the-clock broadcasts of dour announcements and patriotic hymns. The public’s verdict: DJ, please c...
Syrian death toll on the rise
BEIRUT — A mortar shell struck a large tent in southern Syria where supporters of President Bashar Assad had gathered for election campaigni...
Most victims are women, children
JOS, Nigeria — Rescue workers armed with body bags today dug into the rubble of buildings destroyed by two car bombs in a central Nigeria...
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's president pledged today to disband the coast guard amid mounting criticism of its failure to save hundreds of passengers trapped last ...
SAVASTEPE, Turkey — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence.
And he knows one other ...
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the dedication of ...
Francis confirms it, slates beatification
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI, who did much to modernize the Roman Catholic Church but pronounced a ban on artificial contraceptio...
