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JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Latest on the fallout from a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements (all times local):...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump appointed an experienced hand from the George W. Bush era to his national security circle Tuesday and a figure from the Trump Organization to make international deals....
SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- Investigators recovered the flight-data recorder from a crashed Russian military plane Tuesday and began reviewing its contents to learn why the jet went down moments after takeoff, killing all 92 people aboard, including members of a famous choir....
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where a devastating surprise attack sent America marching into World War II....
Carrie Fisher, best remembered as the tough, feisty and powerful Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars," has died at 60. Fisher made the role iconic, and lines like "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope," and her futuristic braided bun hairstyle became part of film lore. She recently reprised the role in a sequel, Episode VII, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in 2015, and her digitally rendered image appears in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.&q...
President Barack Obama's foreign policy doctrine has been rooted in the belief that while United States has the capability to take action around the world on its own, it rarely should....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Carrie Fisher, a daughter of Hollywood royalty who gained pop-culture fame as Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" and turned her struggles with addiction and mental illness into wickedly funny books, a hit film and a one-woman stage show, died Tuesday after falling ill aboard a flight last week. She was 60....
(Vatican Radio) Russia's government has played down suggestions that a terror attack might have downed a Syria-bound Russian plane, killing all 92 people on board, amid concerns among experts that this possibility is being overlooked. The Kremlin made the comments after a day of mourning for the victims, including most members of Russia's world famous military choir.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: "Let us honour the memory of the victims with minute of silence," said Russian Prime Minister Dmitrii Medvedev as he opened a government session. Across the nation people mourned the people who died when the Tupolev-154 plane crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday. It happened just two minutes after taking off in good weather from the city of Sochi. The plane was carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, often referred to as the Red Army Choir, to a New Year's concert at a Russian military base in Syria. Others included journalists and a doctor who ...
(Vatican Radio) On Christmas Eve Pope Francis appointed Paul Desfarges, Archbishop of Algiers.The 72-year-old Jesuit French-Algerian was at the head of the Catholic Diocese of Constantine and Hippo in Algeria since 2009.Archbishop Desfarges spent nearly 30 years in Constantine, where he taught psychology at the University there. He was given Algerian nationality in 1982. He also acted as Jesuit Superior in Algiers until his nomination as Bishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.Speaking to Vatican Radio’s Sara Bakaloglou, Desfarges talks about the life of the Christian minority in the Muslim nation and about his joy for his new, important, nomination:“It is a challenge but at the same time a grace. In everyday life here in Algiers we enjoy a good [interreligious] relationship: a relationship of closeness, collaboration and even friendship” he says.Archbishop Desfarges says his community is a witness of good cohabitation, possibly because it unfolds day by day in big a...
IMAGE: CNS photo/ParamountBy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a real-lifesituation akin to the "High School Musical" movie franchise, Russell Hornsbywas a jock who got the acting bug via the high school musical.Hornsby, a native of Oakland,California, was a sophomore at the all-boys St. Mary's College High School inBerkeley, where he played football. But teammates dared him to try out for theschool musical, "The Wiz.""And when it's a dare, you've got todo it," said Hornsby, who portrays Lyons in the new movie "Fences," which hitsmultiplexes nationwide on Christmas Day.So, for his audition, Hornsbyprepared Bert Lahr's soliloquy on courage as the Cowardly Lion from "The Wizardof Oz," the 1939 movie musical upon which "The Wiz" was based.And, to the delight of, and an ovationfrom, his fellow actors from "Fences," Hornsby -- who might have refined hisapproach in the ensuring years -- took it from the top, playing the part notonly of the Cowardly Lion but all his companions on the Ye...
