Former Manchester United midfielder Philip Mulryne has taken an unusual post-football career step. Last Saturday he was ordained a deacon, the last step before he becomes a priest. The...

Pope Francis pressed his call for Christians to forge greater unity, urging Sweden's tiny Catholic community on Tuesday to set aside divisions with Lutherans as the two churches commemorate the 500th...

Dozens of minor earthquakes have continued to shake central Italy, where a big tremor on Sunday devastated towns in the mountainous region northeast of Rome. The national geological institute...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 31 October....

An explosion along the Colonial Pipeline in rural Alabama killed one worker and injured several others Monday not far from where the line burst and leaked thousands of gallons of gasoline last month,...

Did Bill Cosby drug and molest young women as part of a "signature" crime spree spanning five decades? Prosecutors preparing for his sexual-assault trial hope to call 13 of about 60 accusers to show...

Prosecutors say additional charges will be filed against a Pennsylvania man accused of fathering two children with a 14-year-old girl gifted to him by her parents. Bucks County District Attorney...

Pope Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order was founded to defend...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 30 October....

The third powerful earthquake to hit Italy in two months spared human life Sunday but struck at the nation's identity, destroying a Benedictine cathedral, a medieval tower and other beloved landmarks...