Commissioners of the Church of England have gone 'green' by investing $150 million to former US Vice President Al gore's environmentally-minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management.

Hundreds of thousands of New York revellers packed a frigid Times Square to hail the New Year, joining people around the world eager to say goodbye to 2008.

A Connecticut woman has filed a federal racketeering lawsuit accusing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich of conspiring to cover up sexual abuse of children by priests.

Americans had no problem saying goodbye to 2008 Wednesday, but the nation's economic troubles made many of them less interested in giving it an expensive send-off. Hundreds of thousands of people were still ...

AFP, Kinshasa Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels killed more than 400 people in Christmas massacres in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Caritas aid charity said Tuesday.

With the death toll in the Mexican city of Juarez mounting, the increasingly bloody struggle for control of the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso can now count one more victim: charity from its American ...