The technique, known as low-copy number or high-sensitivity analysis can be used when investigators use "touch DNA" and are only able to collect a few human cells left behind when someone touches an object such as a gun, the handle of a knife, or even …

NEW YORK (AP) — One New York judge ruled the DNA evidence was scientifically sound. Another, just miles away, tossed it out as unreliable. The same scenario is playing out in courthouses around the world amid a debate over whether a type of DNA …

NEW YORK – One New York judge ruled the DNA evidence was scientifically sound. Another, just miles away, tossed it out as unreliable. The same scenario is playing out in courthouses around the world amid a debate over whether a type of DNA analysis …

Pope Francis had a secretary, or receptionist, at the Domus Santa Marta where the pope lives. He saw her every time he checked into his home at the Vatican, but now the pope will not see the young and pregnant woman as she suddenly died without …

One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify in public starting Sunday about clerical sex abuse, an unusual demonstration of holding even the most senior Catholic bishops accountable. Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis …

(Vatican Radio) The Italian association Solidarity Medicine has thanked Pope Francis for the new facility in the colonnade of St. Peter's Square which provides medical care to people who are homeless and in need. The director of the association, Lucia …

(Vatican Radio) Aid workers have warned of a humanitarian crisis at the Greece-Macedonian border after Macedonia effectively closed its borders to most refugees. Authorities link that move to decision by other Balkan countries to cap the number of …

A group of Australian survivors of priestly sex abuse and their relatives are in Rome to witness one of the highest-ranking Vatican official, Cardinal George Pell, testify before an Australian commission investigating the depth of the abuse scandal …

The Prime Minister (left) has been warned he will face a coup if he fails to stop the Tory civil war after the EU referendum as Iain Duncan Smith (right) dismisses PM’s latest warning.

By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and reformist partners won a big vote of confidence in elections that could speed up Iran's emergence from isolation, and a key ally told long dominant hardliners to accept that voters wanted them to step aside. The polls for parliament and a leadership body were […]