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Pope Francis on Thursday ordered Roman Catholic bishops around the world to cooperate as a matter of priority with a commission he set up to protect children from sexual abuse by clerics, even if it unearths new scandals. The pope,...

Taipei's mayor hailed the pilot of a crashed TransAsia Airways plane a hero on Thursday for narrowly avoiding buildings and ditching the stalled aircraft in a river, likely averting a worse disaster. At least 31 people were killed when Flight...

Baghdad's decade-old curfew will end on Saturday and four neighborhoods will be "demilitarized", Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday, as he tries to normalize the capital. Some form of curfew has been in place since the U.S.-led invasion...

Oil rose toward $55 a barrel on Thursday, recovering from part of the previous session's slide after China took steps to pour liquidity into the world's second-biggest economy, although traders and analysts said oil's outlook looked weak. Crude snapped a...

Drugmaker Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said it would buy Hospira Inc (HSP.N) for about $15 billion to gain access to biosimilars, copies of biotech drugs made from living cells. Pfizer's offer of $90 per share represents a premium of 39 percent...

The U.S. trade deficit in December widened sharply to its highest level since 2012 as imports rose despite a lower energy bill, which could see the fourth-quarter growth estimate revised down. The Commerce Department said on Thursday the trade deficit...

The 2015 elections are a few days away. The political parties and candidates are moving across the country campaigning. They are making a lot of promises and commitments. The fulfilment of these promises require an effective, efficient and performing...

In less than two weeks, Nigerians will unveil a new future for themselves. Or—to be more accurate—a new future will be unfurled for us. That future will be characterized either as "Continuity" or "Change," depending on whether President Goodluck...

The outset of the process for nominating the governorship candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Enugu state, had produced a motley crowd of aspirants. The prediction then was that, if not properly managed, the entire exercise was bound...

I read with indignation and consternation certain online reports that some "student leaders" in Akwa Ibom State have contributed a whooping sum of # 100,000,000,00 (one hundred million naira ) to the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party...