This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 23 December....

Italian news agency ANSA says a man killed in Milan is the Berlin Christmas market suspect....

The Italian government is bailing out Monte dei Paschi di Siena after Italy's third-largest lender failed to raise the 5 billion euros ($5.2 billion) needed to stay afloat. The government passed...

This is the main news as reported by the Associated Press on 22 December...

Pope Francis caused a sensation on social media when he was caught purchasing a pair of orthopedic shoes from a pharmacy. The 80-year-old leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics...

Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country's second-largest city, officials said Friday. The suspects had...

The children said they wailed as the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their...

Pope Francis on Thursday named a high-powered commission to investigate a reported condom scandal at the Order of Malta, the conservative Catholic religious order that dates from the medieval...

Pope Francis on Thursday denounced the resistance he's encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, saying some of it is inspired by the devil and that the prelates who work for him must undergo...

Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender. Nearly...