The Vatican is investigating the Diocese of Buffalo, whose bishop has been accused of mishandling sexual abuse allegations, the Holy See announced on Thursday. No reason was given in the short statement issued by the Vatican’s envoy to the United States according to CNN report. The announcement said the investigation would be conducted by Bishop […]

The Zambian parliament has unanimously adopted a motion for the free distribution of sanitary pads in schools. According to BBC report, although the motion is not law, it means the government must provide funds for the distribution of sanitary pads in the next budget. The move comes after Zambian lawmaker Sebastian Kopulande observed on Wednesday […]

A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could kill up to 125 million people and then tip the world into a decade of starvation as smoke blocks sunlight, researchers have estimated. If the neighbours attacked each other with a significant proportion of their growing nuclear arsenals, millions would die instantly from the blast and then […]

Thieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi’s remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police say. The ashes were taken from a memorial in central India, where they had been kept since 1948 – the year of Gandhi’s assassination by a Hindu extremist. The thieves also scrawled “traitor” in green paint across photographs of […]

Four police officers were killed in a knife attack at their Paris headquarters before the suspect was shot dead, authorities said. “We mourn the death of four civil servants from two services in the Paris police force”, the Paris prosecutor said in a press conference. “Three men and one woman, three of them of worked […]