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(VATICAN CITY) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence to reaffirm the value of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to allow married m...

Three women claimed the ban violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause because it applies to women but not men.       

Shariat Sarker arrested under the stringent Digital Security Act for 'hurting religious sentiment of Muslims'.

The group is led by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

This article underlines why it is so critically important to strengthen public health services and systems and stop privatisation. It is co-authored by Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Dr Sandeep Pandey.

A 350-pound grouper caught off the coast of Florida is believed to be 50 years old, making it the oldest fish caught in the state’s wildlife research program, officials said. Jason Boyll reeled in the massive Warsaw gr...

A political poll showed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's popularity declined sharply as his government grappled with a bushfires crisis that has killed 28 people and destroyed 2,000 homes.

Israeli police say they had raided a residential complex in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem in which dozens of women and children were being held and abused under extreme, “slavery conditions

A man who survived more than three weeks in sub-zero Alaska temperatures was rescued when troopers spotted his "SOS" message scrawled in the snow — and found him looking like Tom Hanks in “Cast Away,” authorities s...

Three teachers were killed in a suspected Al Shabaab attack on a primary school in northeastern Kenya, police said on Monday.

This flu season is on track to be one of the worst in history in terms of the number of people infected. Flu is now widespread in almost every state. Nearly 10 million people have become ill so far. Pediatric deaths are ...

In October 2002, he was one of 77 senators who gave President George W. Bush the authority to use force in Iraq. He is still trying to explain that choice.

The Sydney Opera House honored Australian firefighters over the weekend with a moving tribute.

Queen Elizabeth and her heirs meet Prince Harry on Monday to thrash out a plan for him and his actress wife Meghan after they triggered a family crisis by deciding to step back from royal duties and spend more time in No...

Neal Katyal tells Trump: Eighteen witnesses have already "thrown the book at you."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is "disappointed" in the talking points being distributed to volunteers working with the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) campaign, and hopes Sanders "reconsiders" using them. Politico obtained...

Remarkably, some criticism is coming from some within the government's hard-line power base.

In an attempt to save the billions of starving animals trapped in Australia's bushfires, the New South Wales government reportedly dropped over 4,800 pounds of vegetables Sunday, using helicopters and airplanes to access...

Rescue workers in Australia are bombarding secluded parts of the fire-ravaged Land Down Under -- with veggies. "Operation Rock Wallaby,” commissioned by the government of New South Wales, has dropped thousands of carro...

"We know that he wants reporters to roam free in Iran," GOP presidential challenger Bill Weld said. But in America, "he says a free press is the enemy of the people."

The U.S. government will announce "actions" on Monday along with results of a Justice Department criminal investigation into the December shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida that killed three U.S. ser...

Judith Sheindlin, the no-nonsense TV megastar, is entering politics by campaigning for Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor. It was not as unlikely a pairing as it might seem.