"I don't want to exaggerate, but there is a feeling on the part of the Palestinians that the current Israeli government just wants a purely Jewish [Jerusalem]."

"Ambient air pollution...is the greatest environmental risk to health—causing more than 3 million premature deaths worldwide ever year,"

Rousseff's enraged backers called the move a coup d'etat and threatened wide-scale protests and strikes.

Pope Francis agreed a women's diaconate should be given more careful consideration, telling hundreds of nuns from around the world that he himself always wondered about the role of deaconesses in the early church.

An average of 66,000 people were displaced every day in 2015.

Over the last year, Yemen’s brutal war has led to the killing of over 3,000 civilians and meant the destruction of considerable civilian property. Various armed groups, most notably the Houthis and other Islamist forces, have taken over cities and towns in this overwhelmingly Mu