POPE MEXICO CITY — Pope Francis heads into the heart of Mexico's troubled drug-trafficking country Tuesday for a meeting with young people, whom he is holding up as the hope for a better...

A plea of help has been made by the dedicated volunteers behind the Malta Horse Sanctuary in Siggiewi, a picturesque place were 13 unwanted horses are given top-notch care. “For all those...

POPE SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Pope Francis is celebrating Mexico's Indians on Monday with a visit to heavily indigenous Chiapas state, where he will preside over a Mass in three...

OBIT-SCALIA WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, has died, leaving the high court without its conservative...

With an exclamation of "Finally," Pope Francis embraced Patriarch Kirill on Friday in the first meeting between a pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a brief but historic encounter...

Four bystanders became local heroes after they dived in to rescue a mother and her toddler who were trapped inside a car which was sinking into a canal in Amsterdam. It is thought the mother was...

POPE MEXICO CITY — Pope Francis kicks off his first trip to Mexico on Saturday with speeches to the country's political and ecclesial elites, riding in on the success of his historic...

MEXICO-PRISON MONTERREY, Mexico — A prison riot that left 49 inmates hacked, beaten or burned to death opened searing questions about gang rule, extortion and human rights violations in...

A video showing rats peeping out from underneath a door of an abandoned house in St Julian’s, which has been uploaded on the popular Malta Dizastru Totali page on Facebook, has gone...

KILLINGS BY POLICE-FERGUSON WASHINGTON — In suing Ferguson, Missouri, the Justice Department will look to prove in court the same constitutional violations it's already alleged on paper:...