The Vatican's top legislator says he favors a radical change in how the Catholic Church handles marriage annulments to speed them up and reduce costs and red tape. Cardinal Francesco...

Estonia on Thursday became the first former Soviet nation to legalize gay partnerships, while Kyrgyzstan - another ex-Soviet republic thousands of kilometers east - considers anti-gay...

Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series "7thHeaven" and the film "Jurassic Park III," has died. She was 40. Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes on Sept. 27 at her family's...

Brittany Maynard will not live to see if her advocacy makes a difference. The 29-year-old woman expects to die no later than Nov. 1. If the brain cancer from which she suffers does not kill her...

Pope Francis' emphasis on a church that is merciful rather than moralizing is having a pronounced effect inside a meeting of bishops on family life, with the bishops emphasizing that the faithful...

NOBEL-CHEMISTRY STOCKHOLM — Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing methods that let microscopes see finer...

The European Parliament today rejected Alenka Bratusek, Slovenia's candidate for the new EU commission. Members in the industry and environment committees voted overwhelmingly against Bratusek -...

A Spanish nursing assistant may be the first person in the ongoing epidemic to catch Ebola outside of Africa, but she probably won't be the last, experts warn. Still, even as more people with...

The people who chose to look at nude celebrity photos that hackers posted committed "a sexual offence," actress Jennifer Lawrence says in an exclusive interview with Vanity Fair in its November...

European leaders, including Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, are in Milan to debate ways to find work for the continent's 25 million unemployed at a summit Wednesday amid growing popular...