VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who has expressed alarm over the rise of Islamic State militants and the plight of Christians in the Middle East, has summoned his envoys in the region to a rare meeting to discuss a response to the crisis, the Vatican ...

Indian laborers dig a pit to bury a one-horned rhino that was killed and dehorned by poachers at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) east of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. (AP Photo). GENEVA (AP) — About 3,000 ...

A Ground Self-Defense Force CH-47 transport helicopter is on standby in Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, on Tuesday morning. 9:19 pm, September 30, 2014. The Yomiuri ShimbunNAGANO — Rescue teams comprising personnel from the Nagano and Gifu ...

A Ground Self-Defense Force CH-47 transport helicopter is on standby in Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, on Tuesday morning. 9:19 pm, September 30, 2014. The Yomiuri ShimbunNAGANO — Rescue teams comprising personnel from the Nagano and Gifu ...

raped man 360nobs The 24-year-old British tourist was urinating in bushes on Saturday night at the edge of the arena at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich when he was attacked. According to Police in a statement, he was approached by a stranger, who ...

The world populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell overall by 52 per cent between 1970 and 2010, far faster than previously thought, the World Wildlife Fund said. The conservation group's Living Planet Report, published every two ...

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has asked the High Court in Polokwane to be tried separately from his co-accused in the corruption and fraud trial centred on a tender worth more than R50 million. Malema's case has been postponed ...

Microsoft will offer its commercial cloud services — Azure and Office 365 –by the end of 2015 from local data centres in India where the company sees a $2 trillion business opportunity. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, announced this here ...

London (CNN) -- The world's animal population has halved in 40 years as humans put unsustainable demands on Earth, a new report warns. The World Wide Fund for Nature's Living Planet Index, released Tuesday, revealed the dramatic decline in animal ...

Every iPhone launch is different in its own way, but the release of the iPhone 6/6+ will be remembered for the small army ethnic Chinese that camped out in front of Apple stores across the U.S. to get it early. (See Where China's grey market hits the sidewalks ...

University of Manitoba students with ties to Hong Kong are showing their support for people taking part in pro-democracy protests in the Chinese city. Students and activists have been camping out in Hong Kong since late Friday, demanding that Beijing grant ...

Newly appointed US State Department's envoy to co-ordinate its Ebola response, Nancy Powell, says the rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centres built. She said the top priority is to isolate ...

Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro have released thousands of mosquitoes infected with bacteria that suppress dengue fever. The hope is they will multiply, breed and become the majority of mosquitoes, thus reducing cases of the disease. The initiative ...

Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro have released thousands of mosquitoes infected with bacteria that suppress dengue fever. The hope is they will multiply, breed and become the majority of mosquitoes, thus reducing cases of the disease. The initiative ...

Runners compete in the 5K Oktoberfest Run on Saturday morning, held by the German School Washington D.C. in Potomac. After the race, the school held a traditional German Oktoberfest celebration, with German food and beer served in a beer garden ...

Popular support for Hamas has dropped among Palestinians a month after the end of Operation Protective Edge, but a vast majority of the population supports the resumption of rocket attacks if the Israeli blockade on Gaza is not lifted, a new Palestinian poll ...

Wow! Amal Alamuddin looked absolutely stunning in her floor-length white Oscar de la Renta wedding gown, as she married George Clooney in Venice, Italy, on Saturday, Sept. 27. PHOTOS: Celebrity weddings in 2014. The happy couple are pictured on the ...

The co-founder of Ello, Paul Budnitz stated that, the requests to join Ello were counted as 40,000 per hour. Though, the LGBT community kicked off the Facebook just because of its so-called 'real' name policy and now embracing Ello. We have assured the ...

Wildlife populations around the world have declined by more than half over the last 40 years or so, according to the WWF's bi-annual Living Planet report. WWF has been conducting the report once every two years for the past two decades to assess the health ...

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema addresses a crowd of supporters outside the Limpopo High Court. (Werner Beukes, Sapa). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories ...