The Vatican yesterday reaffirmed Catholic teaching that priests cannot reveal what they learn in confession, in an apparent response to moves in Australia and elsewhere to force them to do so in cases of sexual abuse.
Police and airline officials say a stowaway fell from the landing gear of a jet as it approached London's Heathrow Airport after a nine-hour flight from Nairobi.
Taliban fighters killed six people and wounded 105 by blowing up a truck, bombing the morning rush hour near an Afghan Defence Ministry compound.
Spraying graffiti and expletives on the walls, smashing glass windows and destroying furniture, hundreds of masked young protesters rampaged through the heart of Hong Kong's parliament in scenes of unprecedented chaos.
A Moscow court jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for 10 days yesterday after finding him guilty of breaking the law when he took part in a street demonstration last month.
An errant missile struck Cyprus early yesterday, skimming the densely populated capital Nicosia and crashing on a mountainside in what authorities described as a spillover from strikes between Israel and Syria.
The German captain of a charity rescue ship, arrested for defying an Italian ban on docking with migrants, arrived in a Sicilian port yesterday for her first court appearance.
