International

Rome (CNN) -- Pope Francis is to make his first trip to the United States as the head of the Catholic Church in September 2015, the Vatican said Monday. He will travel to the World Meeting of the Families, said Vatican spokesman Padre…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A man convicted of fatally shooting his sleeping wife, then raping and murdering her 10-year-old daughter, was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison after spending almost half…

(CNN) -- A Sikh student at Hofstra University filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States Army, claiming the service refused to grant him a religious accommodation that would allow him to enlist in his school's ROTC program without…

WASHINGTON, (CMC) – The Director of the Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), Dr Marcos Espinal, says preventing local transmission of Ebola is the main goal in preparing for…

Naypyidaw, Myanmar (CNN) -- What a difference two years makes. When Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar in 2012, there was much fanfare about the country's political reforms and apparent road to democracy…

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) -- Residents in a central Florida community watched anxiously on Tuesday after two holes opened in the ground, including one that swallowed a car, forcing six families to evacuate their homes. The first of the two…

London (CNN) -- The Rosetta mission to land a probe on Comet 67P is past the point of no return, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday. "There is no going back now," the agency said after the spacecraft's lander was…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Police hunted Monday for the driver of a car that ploughed at high speed into a group of churchgoers as they stood on a sidewalk after a service. At least 15 people were injured — including seven children. Police said late…

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least 57 people were killed and 20 others injured Tuesday when a bus collided with a truck in southeastern Pakistan, authorities said. The bus was carrying passengers from Swat district in the Khyber…

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber disguised in school uniform detonated explosives at a high school assembly in the northeastern Nigerian city of Potiskum on Monday killing at least 48 students, according to survivors and a morgue…

(CNN) -- First, a 20-year-old Israeli was stabbed Monday at a bus stop in Tel Aviv. Then, three Israelis were stabbed at a hitchhiking post near the entrance to a settlement in the West Bank, police said. One of the three, a 24-year-old…

New York (AP) -- The number of potential successors for the top spot at PepsiCo is thinning as yet another highly regarded executive announced his departure. Zein Abdalla, named president of the company just over two years ago, will retire…

Johannesburg (Reuters) -- Oscar Pistorius' lawyers have formally opposed an appeal by the state against the South African athlete's culpable homicide verdict and five-year jail sentence handed down last month, prosecutors said on Friday.…

Kano, Nigeria (AFP) -- A bomb concealed in a black plastic bag killed several people at a cash point in north Nigeria's Bauchi state on Friday near the scene of a recent bus station attack blamed on Boko Haram, witnesses said. Multiple…

London (CMC) -- The international human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has warned that the “appalling” ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court that could lead to the country’s withdrawal from the Inter American…