VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has presided over a solemn prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica on New Year's Eve, using his homily to stress life's fleetingness. The spiritual leader said, "How we like to be surrounded by so many fireworks, seemingly …

ROME — Pope Francis continues to draw large crowds to the Vatican, speaking to about six million people in 2014. This year's numbers didn't quite reach the 6.6 million people who attended the Vatican in 2013, but they more than doubled the amount of …

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis condemned on Wednesday administrators and criminals in Rome who allegedly pocketed public funds meant to help poor migrants, saying the eternal city needed a "spiritual and moral renewal". Francis, who has made defence …

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned administrators and criminals in Rome who allegedly pocketed public funds meant to help poor migrants, saying the city needed a "spiritual and moral renewal.'' Francis, who has made defense of the …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis condemned on Wednesday administrators and criminals in Rome who allegedly pocketed public funds meant to help poor migrants, saying the eternal city needed a "spiritual and moral renewal". Francis, who has …

TER HEIJDE, NETHERLANDS – A pile of sand about eight times the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza is shaping up as a cut-rate model for protecting coasts from rising seas. The "Sand Engine" is 28 million cubic yards (21.5 million cubic meters …

No, it would have looked more well kept than the game. the Rapture pictured above looks like people actually did set their egos aside to clean the toilets after all, at least for a little while. There's no real caked grime or anything that would look …

Police credit a Crime Stoppers tip along with investigation by the Greensboro Police Department's Crash Reconstruction Unit that led to the arrest of Joshua Samuel Israel, 29. Israel has been charged with Felony Hit and Run. He's currently confined in …

Howver, Jon Benjamin, British High Commissioner to Ghana has asked the general public to ignore TB Joshua. Commenting on his Twitter page, the British foreign service officer said: “But he couldn't prophesy his own church collapsing, killing over 100?”

In the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine's Gerard Sanacora and Stanford University School of Medicine's Alan Schatzberg examine the scientific literature on ketamine, and discuss some of the promises and dangers …