CNN reports that in a thursday speech in rome the pope said it might be better to be an atheist than a Christian who exploits people, lead a double life, get involved in "dirty business," and scandalize the church. Examples of such scandals abound, the ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's phone regulator said Tuesday it has approved Apple Inc.'s iPhone 6 for use on Chinese networks after the company promised never to install "backdoors" to give other governments access to users' information. Apple said sales start ...

Earlier this year, Barack Obama, the unruffled strategist, coolly assessed the limitations of the Islamic State terrorist network. Wednesday night, Barack Obama, the embattled politician, declared ISIS (as the Islamic State is also called) a clear and present ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will deliver a prime-time address Wednesday outlining an expanded military and political effort to combat militants in Syria and Iraq, and urge Congress to quickly give him authority to arm moderate Syrian ...

HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — A child's jump rope, its yellow handles blistered and charred. A burned book in Tagalog. Chunks of twisted fuselage. More than seven weeks after being shot from the sky, the wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 still lay ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The FBI says a U.S. air marshal was attacked with a syringe at a Nigerian airport. FBI spokesman Christos Sinos said Tuesday that preliminary tests show the syringe did not contain any deadly pathogens. It's not known what was in the ...

MONZA, Italy (AP) — Lewis Hamilton broke Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg's recent stranglehold on pole position by qualifying ahead of the championship leader at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday. Rosberg had taken four straight poles and six of the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police escorted Lesotho's prime minister back to his home in the capital of the mountainous kingdom after military actions saw him to flee to South Africa over the weekend, a police official said Wednesday.

The facade of a building at Second and Brown Streets in Napa, Calif., shows severe damage after a strong earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area centered near American Canyon522298, on Sunday, August 24, 2014. after. before. Paul Chinn/The ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The World Health Organization says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now at least 1,350 people. The latest figures Wednesday show that the deaths are mounting fastest in Liberia, which now accounts for at ...

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's emergence as a leader in efforts to resolve Ukraine's crisis — showcased by a visit to Kiev this weekend — underlines Germany's increasing ambition to transform itself from economic power to diplomatic ...

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for answers in Ferguson, Missouri, where police have used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel protesters after the killing of an unarmed teen. The Massachusetts Democrat tweeted Thursday: "This is ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis' choice of wheels during his five-day South Korean visit has surprised many in this painfully self-conscious country, where big-shots rarely hit the streets in anything but expensive luxury cars. After his arrival ...

Lauren Bacall, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was one of the last great links to Hollywood's golden age. Truly a woman from another time, she did her most lasting work during the 1940s, before the age of 25. Then she proceeded to live into our era, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Heavy rain at PGA Championship brought another round of player complaints about not being allowed to lift, clean and place their golf balls in soggy conditions. Play was halted for 1 hour, 51 minutes Sunday in the final round at ...

BOONE, N.C. (AP) — An American doctor infected with the deadly Ebola disease received intensive treatment Sunday in West Africa and was in stable condition, talking to his medical team and working on his computer, a spokeswoman for an aid group said.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Black boxes from the Air Algerie plane that crashed in northern Mali last week will be transferred to France for analysis, the French embassy in Mali said Sunday, as officials prepared for the process of identifying the remains of the dead.

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon's new "unlimited" e-book service lets you read 600,000 books. That sounds like more than you'll ever read, but I found myself struggling to find the books I wanted. It turns out that the library of 600,000 is bit like a small bookstore ...

A pickup in China's growth has fortified confidence the world's second-biggest economy will avoid a precipitous slowdown as the past decade's explosive growth decelerates to the 7 percent range. China's economic transformation since the 1980s has relied ...

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been successfully refloated in preparation for towing it away for scrapping. Authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded ...