Pope Francis has dismissed a proposal to allow some married men to be ordained in remote areas, reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's centuries-old commitment to celibacy among priests.
The apparent stabilisation in reported new cases of the coronavirus is reassuring but it is too early to predict if the epidemic is coming under control, Dr Michael Ryan, the Irish-born World Health Organisation (WHO) executive, said yesterday.
A new antibiotic with "a unique approach" to attacking and killing bacteria has been discovered by scientists.
A Northern Irish man has been granted leave to challenge his extradition to the UK, where he is wanted to face multiple counts of manslaughter after 39 Vietnamese nationals were found dead in a lorry in Essex last October.
Emmanuel Macron has promised to protect Mont Blanc from littering tourists months after a Briton sparked outrage by leaving a rowing machine near the summit.
Before Senator Amy Klobuchar left the debate stage in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday night, her staff could feel a new energy around her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Four people survived 32 days adrift on a boat in the Pacific by eating coconuts floating in the ocean and drinking rainwater in an extraordinary ordeal that claimed the lives of eight other passengers including a baby, a local newspaper has reported.
