Pope Francis talked about equal rights for women during his catechetical reflection on marriage and family at his weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, according to the Vatican Radio.
The Supreme Court of Honduras last week repealed two articles of the country's constitution that had banned presidential reelection, a hotly contested issue in the Central American nation that in 2009 had led to the ouster of then-President Manuel Zelaya.
Scarver details certain events leading up to his murder of Jeffrey Dahmer The name Jeffrey Dahmer is enough to strike a disturbing pulse of horror. The crimes he committed were unmentionable, to say the least.
Venezuela has announced that, in an effort to try to conserve energy, it will cut the working day for public sector workers to five-and-a-half hours. The cost saving measure is part of a nationwide electricity rationing plan.
Pope Francis has expressed support for countries to come together and battle climate change. The Vatican will release the encyclical in June, calling for countries to support the upcoming UN Paris accords on climate change.
Authorities in Mexico City have stated that a 22-year old woman had been chained to an ironing station at a dry-cleaning shop and forced to work in slave-like conditions for two years.
Fossil hunters excavating in Chile have unearthed the remains of a Jurassic age creature that seems to have features from different prehistoric animals
From January to June, a Peruvian community is submerged in water. It seems like something out of a Max Ernst painting, but residents of the Peruvian Amazon community of Belen, which has been called the "Venice of the Jungle," live half the year on the water, using canoes for transportation.
Here's how Uber is using unconventional strategies to address the interesting peculiarities the company is finding in new markets across the world, starting with Colombia.
Twenty-one years ago a Cuban-American lawyer named Magda Montiel Davis, upon meeting Fidel Castro in Cuba, and gave the communist leader a kiss on the cheek, and subsequently suffered a bomb threat and a lot sexually graphic hate mail.
A recent increase in illicit air shipments of cocaine to Bolivia has caused the neighboring nation of Peru to reconsider their previous policy of shooting down small aircraft suspected of transporting the coca-based drug.
The Calbuco volcano erupted on Wednesday for the first time in 40 years. With the eruption, ash and smoke were thrown into the air, but near the eruption was also an unidentified flying object.
After the discovery of 5,000 new dinosaur footprints, the landlocked Latin American nation of Bolivia can now boast the largest number of dinosaur prints in the world.
On Saturday the government of Spain activated an environmental emergency alert regarding oil slicks that threaten to come ashore beaches on the southwestern Canary Islands.
An avalanche on Mount Everest killed Google executive Daniel Fredinburg along with at least 16 other people. The avalanche was triggered by the massive earthquake in Nepal, ABC News reports.
A quartet of former Guantanamo Bay prisoners protested for a second day on Saturday. The four ex-detainees were demanding further assistance from the Uruguayan as well as the U.S. governments regarding their adaptation to living life in their new home.
