
The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?
Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a ...

Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama ...

Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints
Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to ...

A look at new saints canonized by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has made hundreds of new saints at his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square. Here is a look at the people receiving the ...

22 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City
A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early ...

Around the world, angry workers unite on May Day
Workers around the world united in anger during May Day rallies Wednesday — from fury in Europe over austerity measures that have cut wages, reduced ...
Mexican official's daughter gets restaurant closed
A Mexican official's daughter has caused a scandal by sending inspectors to shut down a restaurant that didn't give her the table she wanted. It's the ...

Mexican journalists march against attacks on press
Officials in Veracruz state say they know who killed Regina Martinez. The muckraking reporter, found beaten and suffocated in her house, was just the ...

Ex-French president top gift giver to Obama family
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel wife, Carla Bruni, were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family back in ...
Mexican, Brazilian lead race to be next WTO chief
A Latin American is set to take the helm of the World Trade Organization after the field for the agency's next director general has narrowed to ...
Mexico: German sought in sex ring case recaptured
Authorities in Mexico say police have captured a German man who had been a fugitive since escaping from jail in 2009 after being charged with being ...

Brazen escape lands French bandit on Interpol list
Redoine Faid's escape from a French prison landed him on Interpol's most wanted list Monday, two days after he took four guards hostage and used ...
Vatican holds dialogue with nonbelievers in Mexico
The Vatican says it will hold a dialogue with nonbelievers in three Mexican cities next month. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, who heads the Vatican's ...
Mexico investigates officials in Frenchwoman case
Mexico's prosecutor for human rights says it has begun investigating former high-ranking law enforcement officials who were involved in the case of ...

Mexican vigilantes seize town, arrest police
Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers ...
Romania: Trafficking ring to US, Canada broken up
Romanian anti-crime prosecutors have searched tourism agencies in the south of the country on suspicion they are a front for a ring that trafficks ...

New pope revives question: What is a 'Latino?'
He is being hailed with pride and wonder as the "first Latino pope," a native Spanish speaker born and raised in the South American nation of ...

Carlos Slim's company wins Olympic TV rights
Mexican magnate Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, secured the Latin American broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics on Friday. The IOC ...
Mexico demands Sotheby's halt auction of artifacts
The Mexican government demanded Wednesday that the Sotheby's auction house halt the planned sale of 51 pre-Colombian Mexican artifacts, arguing they ...

Argentine publisher reissues book on Pope Francis
The naming of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis has inspired the enthusiasm not only of many Roman Catholics, but also of a publisher planning to ...
Judge orders 6 men to trial in rapes tourists
A Mexican judge has ordered six men detained in the rape of six Spanish tourists in Acapulco to stand trial, saying prosecutors have presented ...