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JERUSALEM (AP) -- A 19-year-old Israeli woman has spent more than three months in military prison in what supporters say is the longest sentence ever handed down to a female conscientious objector....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Among the dozens killed when a truck bomb struck a crowded market last week in Baghdad's Sadr City were two brothers, the only sons of Talib Jassum Issa, who got the news in a phone call just minutes after the attack....
BOSTON (AP) -- The recipient of the first U.S. penis transplant says he is looking forward to walking out of the hospital a "complete" man....
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Two powerful earthquakes jolted Ecuador on Wednesday, a magnitude 6.7 early morning temblor followed by a 6.8 shake around midday....
HOUSTON (AP) -- With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration....
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- One of the teenagers kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists over two years ago from a boarding school in northeastern Nigeria has been found with a baby and was reunited with her mother, a doctor said Wednesday - the first of the Chibok girls to be recovered since the mass abduction....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After months when the story of the 2016 presidential campaign focused on divided Republicans, Democrats are now showcasing divisions in their ranks....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, released Wednesday a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House....
(Vatican Radio) “What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?” Pope Francis asks in his encyclical Laudato Si’ dedicated to caring for our common home.In an attempt to answer that question, a number of Catholic dioceses in Australia have begun rolling out a pioneering environmental programme which aims to cut energy consumption and costs by up to 80 percent. Using a combination of solar panels, LED lighting, battery storage and energy efficient air conditioning systems, the project not only reduces the carbon footprint of buildings but also promises big savings for its users.The project, entitled Eco community, has already been implemented in almost a hundred Catholic schools, early learning centres and other building in the dioceses of Townsville, Cairns and Darwin on the north east Australian coastline.This week the founders of Eco community, Jesuit-educated brothers Justin and Martin Oldfield, wer...
