The day after the Oscars people usually talk about who was best dressed and who had the best, or worst, acceptance speech. However Monday, in addition to the aforementioned topics, people were talking about how one of the winners of the best motion …

Interrupted by jeers from observers, one of Pope Francis' top advisors on Tuesday denied an accusation that his testimony to an inquiry into child sex abuse was an attempt to deflect blame for the Catholic Church transferring Australia's worst …

The Vatican newspaper on Monday lauded the film Spotlight, which took home this year's Oscar for best picture, for giving voice to the pain of the victims of sexual abuse by the clergy. The film tells the story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a …

Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday said senior clergy lied to him to cover up abuse in the 1970s. The Vatican's …

Due to his archaeological discoveries he says the correct location is Mt Jebel El Lawz in Saudi Arabia and he presents a strong case. The biblical text supports him on this. Then there's the red sea crossing and the Ark of the Covenant. Anyway, here's …

In January, 18-year-old German tourist Andrej Ciesielski scaled the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo. The pyramid is about 480 feet tall and more than 4,500 years old, so climbing the pyramid is illegal, to prevent damage to the monument. According to a …

Louise Rennison, the author who wrote the wrote Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series, has died at the age of 64. Figures from across the literary world have paid tribute to the writer.

The space agency has reborn its ‘X-plane’ project with a new supersonic jet design it hopes could one day replace passenger jets. The project is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ .

Four of the gang’s ‘generals’ were today found guilty of helping to plan and oversee a string of offences, including break-ins in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum and at a building in Durham.

The Zika virus was once thought to be restricted to tropical areas of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Declared a “public health emergency of international concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO), it has spread to pandemic scale …