In Syria former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has brokered a plan to stop the fighting - but will it work? Spanish unions call a general strike. Ireland prepares to vote on another ...
French Christian fundamentalists are conducting a violent campaign against a play they accuse of being blasphemous, throwing eggs and engine oil onto spectators and trying to get it banned.
Poland's prime minister Donald Tusk on Monday began crafting a new cabinet after his party's landmark victory in Sunday's general election - the first win for an incumbent since the fall of the ...
Two members of the conservative Catholic organisation Opus Dei went on trial in Paris on Thursday, accused of treating a disciple as a "brainwashed slave".
In a long-awaited reaction to an official report, the Vatican has admitted "grave failures" over the handling of a child sex abuse scandal involving priests in southern Ireland but ...
Pope Benedict XVI promised to meet the faithful again in two years’ time, when the World Youth Day celebrations will be in Rio de Janeiro, at a mass which signalled the end to controversial ...
Mexican chemistry student Jose Alvano Perez Bautista, appears in court Thursday, accused of plotting a gas attack on protesters against Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Spain.
