Pope Francis has urged Roman Catholic Church leaders to make bold changes to better protect the Amazon and its indigenous people at the start of a three-week meeting that could become one of the most controversial moments in his papacy.
North Korea has vowed not to meet with the US for more "sickening negotiations" unless it abandons its "hostile policy" towards the country.
A 25-year-old man turned himself in to police after allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend, her family and her new boyfriend in an Alpine resort in Austria.
Police are hunting two men who opened fire inside a bar in Kansas yesterday, killing four people and wounding five others in a shooting believed to have stemmed from an earlier dispute with a barman.
A popular winner of the 'Great British Bake Off' crown has spoken of the trauma of being sexually assaulted by a relative in her childhood.
Ginger Baker, the volatile and propulsive British musician who was best known for his time with the power trio Cream, has died at age 80, his family said.
Several thousand conservative activists of all ages marched through Paris to protest at a French bill that would give lesbian couples and single women access to in vitro fertilisation and related procedures.
