Hiroshima

Language: Tamil Director Athiyan Athirai has made a sensational debut with his Irandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu, produced by his mentor, noted director Pa Ranjith. Its a meaningful anti-war film made in an entertaining fashion, without becoming too preachy o…

The level of alarm is already high in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as the Pacific island nation struggles with rising sea levels and the after-effects of decades of U.S. nuclear testing on its atolls. This week, the picture grew even bleaker, as cli…

HBOs Watchmen, which comes from the mind of Lost creator Damon Lindelof and is adapted from the late 80s DC Comics Watchmen series authored by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, has, in short, taken pop culture by storm. For longtime fans of the ser…

Advertisement Pope Francis concluded his historic four-day visit to Japan, which saw him preaching anti-nuclear messages to Japans minority Christians. The Pope paid tribute to the victims of Japans Fukushima nuclear disaster while also touring ground zero o…

Pope Francis is planning to change official Catholic Church teaching to declare the use and possession of atomic weapons as immoral, a move that makes clear that his rejection of the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence is to be official church policy. Franci…

Pope Francis is planning to change official Catholic Church teaching to declare the use and possession of atomic weapons as immoral, to make clear that his rejection of the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence is official church policy. Francis had declared t…

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) Pope Francis is planning to change official Catholic Church teaching to declare the use and possession of atomic weapons as immoral, a move that makes clear that his rejection of the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence is to be off…

A POTENTIALLY deadly asteroid has ten chances to collide with Earth over the next 84 years, according to Nasa. The space rock Apophis is taller than the Empire State Building and could wipe out millions if it careens into our planet. It's being tracked by N…

Nagasaki, a port city that first had contact with European explorers in the 1500s, is the center of Catholic life in Japan, although the observant population in the country has fallen to just over 450,000, a tiny minority in a nation of 126 million people. Th…

In a somber visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki Sunday, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons as “immoral” and called for a world without them. “The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral — as is the possession of atomic weapons,” he said at the pe…