Pope calls for humanitarian corridors to protect migrants
Pope Francis said prayers on Sunday for victims of the bombing of a migrant center in Libya last week and called for concerted action to...
Iran makes new nuclear threats that would reverse steps in pact
Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and ramp up its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity as its next potential big moves...
Intra-Cellular drug fails one of two bipolar depression studies; shares fall
Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc said on Monday its lead drug failed to meet the main goal of one of two late-stage studies in patients with major...
Ukraine’s president says ready to meet Russia’s Putin in Minsk
Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Monday he was ready to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Minsk for talks that he said should...
Climate protesters arrested outside Swiss banks
Environmental activists, seeking to pressure Swiss banks into halting the financing of fossil fuels, blocked entrances to Credit Suisse in Zurich and UBS in Basel...
Intra-Cellular drug fails one of two bipolar depression studies
Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc said on Monday its experimental treatment failed to meet the main goal of one of two studies in patients with major depressive...
Russia calls tirade against Putin on Georgian TV a ploy to derail ties
Russia on Monday condemned an obscenity-laden tirade against President Vladimir Putin on a Georgian TV station, calling it a shameful and unacceptable provocation by radical...
Why wouldn’t you write a Steve Jobs opera?
An opera about the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was an obvious choice for Grammy award winner Mason Bates, composer of “The (R)Evolution of Steve Jobs.”...
Iran’s Zarif calls on UK to immediately release captured oil tanker
The capture of an Iranian oil tanker by Britain has set “a dangerous precedent and must end now”, Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said...
Indonesian woman jailed for reporting harassment to seek amnesty
An Indonesian woman sentenced to prison for reporting her employer for sexual harassment said on Monday she will ask President Joko Widodo for an amnesty....