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Pope Francis will seek deeper relations between the Catholic Church and other Christian faiths Thursday when he meets the world’s largest ecumenical community of Protestant and Orthodox churches amid waning influence in Europe and indiscriminate attacks on worshippers elsewhere. Francis will travel to Geneva, the home of French Protestant reformist …

New Jersey police say an officer performed a successful roadside C-section on a deer that had died after being hit by a car on Sunday morning. In a Facebook post, the Washington Township Police Department said one fawn survived the emergency surgery. Photos showed officer Jim Vernon swaddling the bloody deer …

A 30-year-old woman in Egypt recently filed for divorce from her 32-year-old husband after only 40 days of marriage on grounds that he is so stingy that he refused to buy her a shawarma sandwich on their first and only outing as a married couple. Speaking before the Family Court …

Four people have died in an explosion at a shop in Leicester, police have confirmed. Leicestershire Police declared a “major incident” after reports of a blast in Hinckley Road at about 19:00 GMT on Sunday. Four other people remain in hospital, one with serious injuries, the force said. Supt Shane …

Families of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls have expressed grief and disappointment after the authorities retracted a statement that some of the missing girls had been rescued by the military. Police said on Wednesday that 111 girls from the government Girls Science and Technical College, a state-run boarding school in Dapchi, in …

A Malian militant group with links to al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed two French soldiers in the West African country on Wednesday. The soldiers were killed after their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosive device near Mali’s border with Niger and Burkina Faso, an …

For the first time in more than two years – the longest stretch since the late 1950s – a coup d’etat rocked a country in Africa. Late on the evening of November 14, the Zimbabwe military seized control of the capital, Harare, and placed President Robert Mugabe under house arrest. …

A hospital in the Indian capital Delhi has fired two doctors for mistakenly declaring a newborn dead. The doctors at the privately run Max Hospital had pronounced the baby dead hours after his twin who was stillborn on 30 November. The parents found that the baby was alive while they …

An Australian MP has proposed to his partner during a parliamentary debate on legalising same-sex marriage. Tim Wilson’s proposal to Ryan Bolger, who was sitting in the public gallery, was met with a loud “yes” – reaffirming a commitment they made nine years ago. The House of Representatives began debating …

North Korean officials were closely watching US President Donald Trump when he addressed the South Korean National Assembly Wednesday, but they say they weren’t listening. Though the American leader’s tone was more subdued — and he proposed what some perceived as a conditional olive branch — officials in Pyongyang authorized …