Pope Francis opened a landmark meeting Tuesday on reforming the Catholic Church, saying he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that gives hope to the poor, the young and the elderly like...

Congress plunged the U.S. government into a partial shutdown Tuesday for the first time in nearly two decades, as a conservative attempt to derail President Barack Obama's health care overhaul...

A war of words between Britain's Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and the conservative Daily Mail newspaper has moved beyond politics into more personal territory with a blistering attack on...

The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder...

Pope Francis convenes his parallel cabinet on Tuesday for a first round of talks on reforming the Catholic Church, bringing eight cardinals from around the globe together in a novel initiative to get...

Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, “What does not get measured, does not get done.” He might have added that what gets measured poorly gets done...

The leader of Norway's Conservative Party announced on Monday that she is forming a right-wing minority government, the first in the oil-rich country to ever include the anti-immigration Progress...

They left in secrecy on a private jet, bound for one of the world's most dangerous places, to destroy substances so deadly that the smallest particle can kill within minutes. The inspectors for...

An Alitalia pilot successfully made an emergency landing in Rome's Fiumicino airport late on Sunday the right landing gear of the airbus he was flying failed to open.   All 151...

October 1st this year marks the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It is a time to celebrate and look forward. The birth of the People’s Republic ushered...