Fight for future of Bangladesh plays out in street
The fight for the future of Bangladesh is playing out in the streets of this troubled south Asian nation. For a month, masses of moderate activists ...
French jobless rate up again in Q4, hits 10.6 pct
France has yet to hit bottom. The unemployment rate in Europe's second-largest economy rose again in the last quarter of last year to 10.6 percent, ...
China rebukes monastery at heart of fiery protests
Chinese officials on Thursday castigated a Tibetan monastery at the center of a wave of self-immolations, saying it has been inciting the fiery ...
UN says 21 peacekeepers detained on Golan Heights
Armed fighters linked to the Syrian opposition detained 21 U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines on Wednesday in the increasingly volatile zone ...
Cardinals impose media blackout ahead of conclave
In the end, American-style transparency was no match for the Vatican's obsession with secrecy. Cardinals attending closed-door discussions ahead of ...
Syrian refugees top 1 million, rebels take city
Syria's accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone Wednesday: The number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million — half of them ...
Old Catholic orders fade as monks and nuns age
The nuns of "Le Creche," the only orphanage in Bethlehem, have raised generations of children in this biblical town. But only four aging nuns remain, ...
Court suspends Egypt's parliament election
An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in April, opening a legal battle likely to delay ...
Scola reaches youth through Kerouac and McCarthy
To illustrate that life is a journey, one of the Italian cardinals touted as a favorite to be the next pope doesn't just turn to the Scriptures — but ...
A diplomatic natural, Kerry hits ground running
With the smile of a seasoned politician, a flair for languages and a vast repertoire of personal anecdotes, Secretary of State John Kerry schmoozed ...
Violence in South Sudan kills 33
South Sudan's military spokesman says two clashes between soldiers and rebels resulted in the deaths of 33 people. Col. Philip Aguer said Wednesday ...
UK civil servants to strike over pay, pensions
British civil servants are planning to strike this month amid an ongoing dispute over pay, pensions and working conditions. The Public and Commercial ...
Spain's royal palace workers call 1st ever strike
Workers at Spain's royal palaces will stage their first strike ever to protest austerity cutbacks. The CSI-F union said Wednesday the strikes on Mar.
Polish lawmakers protest Walesa's anti-gay rant
Poland's first openly gay and transsexual lawmakers took seats on the front bench of Parliament Wednesday to protest hostile remarks by former ...
France starts shaking up labor laws
France's Socialist government has unveiled a plan to relax and simplify labor laws in hopes of stemming job losses that are threatening Europe's ...
Sweden: vandalism of Jewish center not hate crime
Swedish authorities have dropped an investigation into the vandalism of a Jewish center in the southern city of Malmo, saying it was probably a ...
New Chaldean patriarch enthroned in Iraq
Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass Wednesday that was held amid tight security in Baghdad. The mass ...
Correction: Vatican-Pope story
In a story March 5 about American cardinals exerting a surprising amount of control over the message coming out of Vatican City ahead of the papal ...
Abuse victims ask cardinals be kept from conclave
Advocates for victims of clerical sex abuse in Chile, Mexico and Italy asked Tuesday for three cardinals to withdraw from the papal conclave, accusing ...
Victims raise legal questions about retired pope
Attorneys who have tried unsuccessfully for years to sue the Vatican over failures to stop clergy sex abuse are looking into whether former Pope ...
Egypt's leader mulls army takeover of restive city
A security agency headquarters was set on fire as protesters battled police for a third straight day in Port Said on Tuesday, and Egypt's Islamist ...
French unions protest loosening of labor rules
France's toughest unions are protesting a potentially landmark plan to loosen the country's famously rigid labor rules, calling it a betrayal by ...
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