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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday evening made an unexpected appearance at the Judges' Summit on Human Trafficking and Organized Crime, a two day conference taking place in the Vatican and organized by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Listen to Devin Watkins' report: Speaking to judges and prosecutors from around the world, the Holy Father asked them "to fulfill their vocation and their crucial mission — to establish justice — without which there is neither order nor sustainable and integral development, nor social peace".He said judges’ unique contribution to humanity is a result of their ‘understanding of indifference and its extreme forms in a globalized world’.This situation of globalized indifference has led to the creation of ‘structures of sin’, from which judges must be free by vocation.“Taking charge of one's own vocation also means feeling, and proclaiming oneself, free from the pre...
BEIJING (AP) -- China tightened security around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Saturday on the 27th anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests, pointing to the enduring sensitivity over the events among the Communist Party leadership....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The kindly professor whom the gunman blamed for his ruin had, in truth, quietly seen to his academic success....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After years of being denied entry to the U.S., Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become a welcome guest in Washington, forging a surprising bond with President Barack Obama and deepening ties with America....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, meet public accountability....
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Nine Fort Hood soldiers who died when a rain-swollen creek swept their vehicle into rushing waters were in the right place for their intended training, according to the U.S. Army....
Muhammad Ali's prolific 61-fight career featured bouts that are considered the greatest in history: a trilogy with Joe Frazier that produced "The Fight of the Century" and the "Thrilla in Manila," and the "The Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman, among many others....
Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, won the heavyweight boxing championship for the first time on Feb. 25, 1964, defeating Sonny Liston on a technical knockout. He defeated Liston again in a rematch in Lewiston, Maine, in 1965. Here's AP's report from the Miami fight:...
He was fast of fist and foot (AP) -- lip, too - a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and his voice barely rose above a whisper....
COURTLAND, Ala. (AP) -- Lisa Davis, a cashier at a Foodvalu grocery store in rural north Alabama, spent Friday ringing up bottled water sales after a local utility declared its tap water unfit to drink because of chemical contamination....
