Ambitions by the BRICS group to take on a greater climate leadership role, building on success last month at United Nations ...

For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing ...

Kitchens are often the site of merriment. It’s a cultural trait shared by most, if not all, of humankind. Complete strangers ...

Many Catholics recall similar vigils held in St. Peter’s Square when Pope John Paul II was hospitalized in the final days of ...

Pirelli & C. is "evaluating material investments" in the U.S. to expand its manufacturing capacity as part of contingency ...

Pope Francis' approach to LGBTQ issues marked a major, if mixed, shift in tone for the Catholic Church -- from scorn to ...

For almost two decades, hundreds of dogs in the upscale Barra da Tijuca region in Rio de Janeiro have wagged their tails to ...

Brazil’s Carnival revelry is ramping up ... Some in the party paid tribute to Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized in Rome with double pneumonia. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor handed over the key to the ...

"From Cali to Rome, we have sent a light of hope that still the common ... director of the Department of Environment at the ...

A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed a plan to generate $200 billion in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin ...

in Rome. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP) Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the Guama River, ...

The US is not a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity and cannot directly influence the talks, but there’s ...