A court in Poland has ordered the Catholic dioceses in the cities of Wroclaw and Bydgoszcz to pay $77,000 in damages to a former altar boy. The boy who was raped and molested by a priest 10 years ago,a local media reported on Friday. The plaintiff, now 21, demanded damages from the church, claiming that […]

Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who ruled the country with an iron fist between 1978 and 2002, will be honoured with a state funeral on February 11, the government said Thursday. Moi died on February 4 aged 95. Moi’s body will lie in state for public viewing from Saturday until Monday, before a memorial […]

A plane bringing home the first Canadians from Wuhan, epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, landed Friday at a Canadian military base where they will be quarantined. The government-chartered jetliner landed at Trenton air force base east of Toronto at around 6:30 am (11:30 am GMT), after a refueling stopover in Vancouver. It carried 176 passengers. […]

A son of Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been indicted in France on money-laundering charges in a probe into the family’s foreign assets, a source close to the case told AFP on Friday. Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, 45, was charged by the French investigating magistrate in December 2019, the source added, the […]

The American economy saw an explosion of new hiring in January, possibly helped by mild weather but getting the year off to an impressive start, according to key government data released Friday. The report, which showed the biggest employment increase since January of last year, will be a boon to President Donald Trump, who has […]