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Pope says Church should rid itself of 'worldliness' Pope Francis on Friday called for the Catholic Church and its faithful to rid themselves of earthly concerns like St Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage to the saint's Italian hometown.

07 October 2013

Chile group wants Pinochet 'dictatorship' in textbooks A Chilean education advisory group recommended Friday that schools use "dictatorship" rather than "military regime" in textbooks to describe General Augusto Pinochet's rule marred by rights abuses.

07 October 2013

Israel: European rights resolution on circumcision 'racist' Israel labelled as "racist" and "anti-religious" Friday a resolution of the pan-European human rights body calling for regulation of circumcision practices.

06 October 2013

Malala picks up another award as Nobel beckons Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' schooling, added another award to a growing list on Friday.

06 October 2013

Australia presses Russia over detained Greenpeace activist Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop expressed concern to Russia about an Australian crew member of a Greenpeace ship facing a "very serious" piracy charge over an Arctic oil exploration protest.

06 October 2013

First-ever global deal struck on airline CO2 emissions A first-ever global deal on curbing the airline industry's rising carbon emissions was agreed Friday.

05 October 2013

Myanmar picks first Miss Universe hopeful in half century With a whiff of controversy and not a bikini in sight, a US-educated business graduate was selected as the first Miss Universe contestant to represent Myanmar in more than 50 years.

05 October 2013

Photographer who captured Robert Kennedy assassination dies Bill Eppridge, the photojournalist behind the iconic and haunting images of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1966, has died at the age of 75.

04 October 2013

Nigeria school attacks force thousands to quit studies: Amnesty Schools attacks in northern Nigeria have grown more frequent and deadly this year, forcing thousands to abandon their education, with most of the violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists.

04 October 2013

Last will and testament of Alfred Nobel, prize creator Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a vast fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, ordered the creation of the Nobel prizes in his will.

04 October 2013

e-ISLAM to be launched in Kazakhstan by year end e-ISLAM web portal will be launched in Kazakhstan this year.

04 October 2013

Nuclear dump near Aktau causes genetic mutation in rodents 51 million tons of radioactive wastes are kept at the storage facility for uranium-containing wastes of Koshkar-Ata chemical plant near Aktau.

03 October 2013

Koalas in danger as Aussie temperatures soar: study Australia's native koala could face a wipeout from increasing temperatures unless "urgent" action is taken to plant trees for shelter as well as eucalypts to eat.

03 October 2013

China's e-cigarette inventor fights for financial rewards The Chinese inventor who dreamed up the electronic cigarette in a nicotine-induced vision says that despite its global popularity, copycat versions and legal disputes mean he has battled to cash in on his creation.

03 October 2013

Greenpeace disrupts Champions League match to protest sponsor Gazprom Greenpeace campaigners briefly interrupted a Champions League match in Basel on Tuesday to protest against sponsor and Russian energy giant Gazprom.

03 October 2013

When diseases have a bad name, change is hard Some diseases just have a bad name. But even when their commonly known labels glorify Nazi doctors or slander certain ethnic groups, old habits are hard to change.

03 October 2013

World population to shoot up to 9.7 billion in 2050: study The world's population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world's most populous nation.

02 October 2013

In Aleppo, schools reopen despite war In Syria's war-ravaged city of Aleppo, Abu Hussein hurries along little Ali, who has stopped just a few steps from school to buy a bag of potato chips.

02 October 2013

Nuclear medicine center to open in Almaty Opening a nuclear medicine center in Almaty will cost around 9 billion tenge ($60 million).

02 October 2013

Survey finds US Jews losing their religion Jews in the United States are overwhelmingly proud to be Jewish, yet nearly one in five of them describe themselves as having no religion.

01 October 2013

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