A petition is currently circulating Australia calling on Target stores across the country to remove the Holy Bible from its shelves, arguing that the Bible teaches disrespect toward women.

In a move that stunned Vatican insiders, Pope Francis removed the head of the Swiss Guard responsible for his security allegedly "for being too strict."

Just hours before a monster storm was expected to smash coastal areas in central Philippines on Saturday, about half a million people had already fled their homes and moved to higher ground.

An Al-Qaeda affiliate group in Yemen is reportedly threatening to execute a U.K.-born American hostage being held there since 2013.

Police with the United Arab Emirates have reportedly made an arrest in the fatal stabbing of a U.S. schoolteacher in a mall restroom earlier this week.

Suddenly, like magic, the Vatican has found itself awash in cash. In an extraordinary revelation, Cardinal George Pell, the Australian prelate charged by Pope Francis with cleaning up the Vatican's murky finances, has disclosed that they discovered "hundreds of millions of euros ... tucked away" in accounts of various Holy See departments that did not appear in the Vatican's official balance sheets.

The Philippines braced for yet another catastrophic storm on Thursday as typhoon Hagupit (Filipino for "lash") roared toward the central part of the country packing winds of up to 195 kph (120 mph) with gusts of up to 230 kph.

An American schoolteacher working in Abu Dhabi was reportedly stabbed in a mall restroom on Monday by a suspect wearing a full-veiled outfit, known as a niqab.

For the first time in history, leaders of the world's major religions came together at the Vatican on Tuesday to sign a declaration condemning modern slavery and urging the world to stamp out all forms of this "crime against humanity" by 2020.

The U.S. announced Wednesday that Iran may have participated in its first round of airstrikes targeting the Islamic State.

Lebanese media outlets are reporting that the wife of the head of the Islamic State was recently detained by authorities while trying to cross into the country from Syria.