Pope Francis says governments have nothing to fear from the Church because it has no political agenda.

A curfew has been imposed in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after one protester was killed and several others injured.

The official death toll from the wildfires in Hawaii stands at 115, and hundreds of people remain unaccounted for.

Property losses are estimated at $US6 billion.

Residents have questions about the response – who is to blame and when survivors and bus…

Protesters rally outside a French military base, calling for the ambassador and about 1,500 soldiers to leave.

Ethnic conflict in the Indian state of Manipur is keeping people from receiving medical care.

Tens of thousands of people have become trapped as dangerous weather lashes the desert grounds of a famous music festival in the US.

More than 73,000 attendees of the annual Burning Man festival held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert are helplessly trappe…

The city of Hong Kong is facing a large clean up job after Typhoon Saola left a trail of destruction.

While the weather system moved away from Hong Kong to make landfall in China, the typhoon left the Asian financial hub battered.

The trail of destru…

Australian singer and actor Casey Donovan is among tens of thousands of people stranded in northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert after a massive storm and heavy rain turned the Burning Man event and campgrounds into a muddy quagmire.

Thousands of people were evacuated in Taiwan and all domestic flights cancelled as the island prepared for Typhoon Haiku. Southeastern areas cancelled school classes and told workers to stay at home. Officials said the storm posed a ‘considerable threa…

More than 150 people have been injured in violent protests in Tel Aviv between Eritrean asylum seekers and police.

Officers in riot gear and on horseback tried to control the demonstration as protesters broke through barricades and hurled stones at po…