Australia XV to face Lions: Kurtley Beale; Israel Folau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Christian Leali'ifano, Joe Tomane; James O'Connor, Will Genia; Benn Robinson, Stephen Moore, Ben Alexander; Kane Douglas, James Horwill (c); Ben Mowen, George Smith, …

The University of Leicester will spend a month excavating the ruins of the Grey Friars Church to better understand the architecture, layout and inhabitants of the medieval friary where Richard III was buried.

British tabloids jumped on the procedure when it was first announced in 2008 and labeled it the creation of a three-parent baby — the mother, the donor and the father — a charge scientists claim is inaccurate because the amount of DNA from the donor …

France will pursue 14 billion euros in spending cuts next year as it attempts to reduce the public deficit to 3 percent of economic output by 2015, Le Monde reported. France’s Socialist government aims …

Regulators on Tuesday called on private student loan lenders to offer more flexible repayment terms to borrowers at a time when many are struggling to pay off their debt. Testifying before the Senate Banking …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Don't be fooled by worldly treasures that seduce people but leave them tired, loveless and empty, Pope Francis said. Seek out and gather divine treasures like “love, charity, service, patience, goodness and tenderness,” he said …

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson has said that a middleman approached him on behalf of Snowden, and Hrafnsson then notified the Icelandic government that Snowden wanted to seek asylum there.

By Barbara Opall-Rome. Israel's Defense Ministry is asking the US government to guarantee billions of dollars in low-interest bridge loans for a Pentagon-proposed package of V-22 Ospreys, F-15 radars and precision-strike …

AFP – Israeli settlers are seeking approval for hundreds of homes in the northern West Bank settlements of Itamar and Bruchin, despite Palestinian insistence that such plans block a return to peace talks, Israel media reported on Thursday. The …

The team says that although existing telescopes have turned up scant evidence that aliens are out there, humankind simply may not have been using the proper tools to find them. “The biggest telescopes that we're likely to see in the next 100 years or …