One person has died and two are injured after police responded to a reported knife attack in Woolwich, south-east London.
Just do good, and we'll find a meeting point, says Francis in marked departure from Benedict's line on non-CatholicsAtheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together.The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a...
The inventor of the Gif image format says it should be pronounced Jif, despite what the Oxford English Dictionary says.
A poll in 25 countries for the BBC World Service suggests Germany is the most favourably viewed country in the world.
The man killed in south-east London on Wednesday afternoon was a member of the armed forces, senior Whitehall sources have confirmed.
If convicted murderer Jodi Arias is sentenced to death this month for killing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, she will be the third woman on death row in Arizona, which has not executed a woman since 1930.
Once again political leaders of both parties sell out the gay community. It's not right. Shame on Democrats for concedingIt is outrageous. Once again the gay community is reminded of where it stands with the political leadership, both Democrats and Republican. Their rights have been traded away for the sake of a political deal in Washington DC. The Senate Judiciary Committee, after five days of...
Autism advocates are praising a German software company for its plan to hire people with autism as software testers, programmers and data quality assurance specialists.
An 80-year old Japanese man has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest peak.
The arrests came two and a half weeks after elections that showed the governing party losing support with broad swaths of the multicultural electorate.

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