Pope Francis has said that sexual pleasure is “a gift from God” that should be “disciplined with patience.”

A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames over the Pacific.

Chaos and a “lack of urgency” plagued the police response to the deadly 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the US Justice Department has found.

US President Joe Biden says strikes on the Houthis in Yemen have not stopped the group’s Red Sea attacks, and that the US operation will continue.

Israel says its troops have reached the southernmost area of Khan Younis, as they expand their operations in the Gaza Strip’s second-biggest city.

At least 12 pupils and two teachers are thought to have drowned in western India, after a boat ferrying them to a school picnic capsized on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state once the conflict in Gaza comes to an end.

The head of one of Russia’s biggest ethnically mixed republics accused what he called extremists and traitors of trying to bring about its secession.

Pakistan launched strikes on separatist militants inside Iran, in a retaliatory attack two days after Tehran said it struck the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.

NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been grounded in Switzerland after his plane had a “critical failure” due to an oxygen leak, officials said.

The U.S. military said on Wednesday its forces conducted strikes on 14 Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired from Yemen, in the fourth day of U.S. strikes in less than a week.