VATICAN CITY — Dozens of mayors from around the world demanded Tuesday that their national leaders take bold steps at the Paris climate talks this year, saying that could be the last chance to keep the Earth's warming to levels still safe for humanity.

VATICAN CITY – Dozens of environmentally friendly mayors from around the world will be signing a Vatican declaration Tuesday urging their national leaders to approve a “bold climate agreement” that keeps global warming …

Billionaire Yuri Milner pledges $100 million to seek aliens. Monday July 20, 2015 12:37 PM. The Associated Press. (c) 2015, Bloomberg News. LONDON — Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, best known for early investments in Facebook and Twitter, has …

Japan’s financial watchdog plans to seek a financial penalty on Toshiba Corp , currently being investigated by an independent committee over accounting irregularities, the Nikkei reported on Saturday. The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) believes the company falsified financial statements and will recommend as early as September that the Financial Services Agency impose a […]

By Rich McKay CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) – Investigators on Friday sought to determine what led a 24-year-old gunman to open fire at two military offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four Marines in an attack officials said could be an act of domestic terrorism. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, identified as the shooter by the Federal Bureau of […]

SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) – Realtors in Australia, Britain and Canada are bracing for a surge of new interest in their already hot property markets, with early signs that wealthy Chinese investors are seeking a safe haven from the turmoil in Shanghai’s equity markets. Sydney realtor Michael Pallier said in the past week alone he has sold […]

The research authored by Schroeder and his colleagues contends that TALE (transcription activator-like effectors) proteins are “capable of rapid diffusion along DNA using a combination of sliding and hopping behavior.” In other words, they can move …

DEAR ABBY: I recently received a Facebook message from a 47-year-old mother of four who believes she is my daughter. While I do not remember her mother and have communicated this to the woman, the pictures she sent of her children somewhat …

African migrants are sleeping on rocks beside the sea and at packed railway stations after being banned from entering Italy. Nigel Farage (pictured) has warned ‘millions’ could come to the UK.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Wednesday (June 17) said people who shut out refugees should seek forgiveness, after clashes on Italy's borders as European countries try to push back against a wave of migrants fleeing by boat from Libya. Addressing …