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Pope Francis warned on Friday that technology and globalisation are homogenising young people around the world to the point where their uniqueness and cultural individuality are becoming endangered species. The 82-year-old pope made his appeal for young peop…

The man credited with breaking professional basketballs color barrier has died. The University of Utah announced on Thursday that Wataru "Wat" Misaka died at 95 years old in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. Misaka played for Utah on their 1944 NCAA championship…

The pontiff was already planning to call for global nuclear disarmament. Asking the U.S. to adopt a no-first-use policy would make the world a bit safer, faster. This Sunday, Pope Francis will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only locations in history to h…

iStockphoto In August, it was reported that NASA was making preparations for the monstrous 99942 Apophis asteroid nicknamed “The Colossal God of Chaos” to fly by Earth at a terrifying distance of just 19,000 miles from our planet. Most satellites orbit Earth…

Its fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 years later it remains steeped in blood-soaked symbolism, both religious and political. It…

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) Its fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 years later it remains steeped in blood-soaked symbolism, both religio…

Key point: Both countries have growing, and dangerous, nuclear arsenals. Between February 26 and 27 in 2019, Indian and Pakistani warplanes launched strikes on each others territory and engaged in aerial combat for the first time since 1971. Pakistan ominous…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where he'll appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of pers…

Digital rendering of the earth observation satellite Sentinel-1. Satellites such as Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 carry advanced synthetic aperture radars that can provide data to map changing land cover, ground deformation, ice shelves and glaciers. (Photo: ESA / AT…

Pope Francis has agendas both pastoral and personal for his trip to Asia, where hell appeal for global nuclear disarmament at the sites of the atomic bomb and minister to two tiny Catholic communities that have suffered gruesome periods of persecution. Empha…