Day: April 8, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to violence in Syria, as well as a renewed peace effort in the Middle East, in his annual Easter Mass message from the Vatican.

Reports of horror and carnage continue to mount in Syria, just days before a Tuesday deadline for government forces to withdraw from cities.

For 50 years the environmental movement has unsuccessfully argued that we should save the planet for moral reasons, that there were more important things than money. Ironically, it now seems it will be money — through the economic impact of climate ch…

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit — the first to India by a Pakistani leader in seven years — follows a pledge to grant India “most favored nation” trading status and amid thawing relations between the two archrivals.