Canada's Supreme Court has overturned a 20-year ban on doctor-assisted suicides for adults suffering from grave and "irremediable medical condition."

A father living in Armenia has chosen to take care of his baby with Down syndrome after his wife wanted to abandon the child.

Jordan officials are arguing that recent claims by the Islamic State that an American hostage was killed during an airstrike are merely a "PR stunt."

Never let fear of scandal cover the truth about child abuse within the Catholic Church. Pope Francis recently issued this emphatic reminder to bishops worldwide, saying they have the duty to stamp out sexual abuse of children and its cover-up.

Indian police detained about 100 Christian protesters, including priests and nuns, dragging them into police buses after they demonstrated against a string of attacks on churches in the capital New Delhi on Thursday.

Jordan carried out a second straight day of air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria to avenge a captive Jordanian pilot burnt to death by the extremist group, official Jordanian sources reported on Friday.

Aviation officials in Taiwan have pinpointed the malfunction of the TransAsia Airways jet that crashed in Taipei on Tuesday, saying a \"lack of thrust\" in both of the engines caused the plane to lose momentum and go crashing into the river.

City officials in Taipei, Taiwan are hailing the pilot of a TransAsia Airways flight a hero after he directed his malfunctioning plane into the Keelung River, avoiding nearby apartment and office buildings.

Jordan launched airstrikes this week and vowed war against the Islamic State after the terrorist group executed Jordanian air pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh.

Local officials in Cameroon are reporting that the terrorist group Boko Haram killed 70 people in a small border town this week.

A court in the U.K. has ruled that a British mother of six with an IQ of 70 can be legally sterilized to avoid possible health complications if she has another child.