A double female suicide bomb blast killed 45 in Nigeria Tuesday in the latest attack attributed to the Boko Haram terrorism group.

A surprise telephone call supposedly made by Pope Francis last August appeared to have led to the arrest on Monday of three Spanish Catholic priests and a lay person on charges of child sexual abuse.

Two soldiers were killed in an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan when a bomb detonated in their vehicle, local authorities say. Although the nationality of the soldiers has yet to be released, several media outlets are suggesting the soldiers were American.

Pope Francis denounced priests who are "attached to money" and who mistreat people, saying the people of God cannot forgive them for turning churches into businesses.

An Israeli mayor is receiving criticism for allegedly banning Arab workers from construction jobs at local preschools following a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem synagogue earlier this week.

Jordan\'s queen has issued a statement blasting the Islamic State one day after the United Nations implored Arab countries to voice their opposition to the terrorist organization.

French officials have identified another French national in a recent execution video that shows the killing of dozens of Syrian soldiers.

In an astounding discovery, the robotic probe now on the surface of Comet 67P has found that the cosmic body heading towards the Sun contains organic molecules that are considered as the building blocks of life.

The United Nations spoke out against the Islamic State this week, urging other countries in the Arab world to publicly denounce the terror organization.

Pope Francis' mission of reforming the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States gained a boost on Tuesday when his appointee, Bishop Blase Cupich, took his seat as the new archbishop of Chicago, the nation's third largest Catholic archdiocese.

Two Palestinian attackers reportedly entered a Jerusalem temple Tuesday and killed four Israeli worshippers, as well as injuring six.