Jay Gotera

Our planet's oceans are slowly but surely being choked to death by plastic garbage, a new study revealed on Wednesday.

Confronting a diplomatic dilemma, Pope Francis has chosen not to meet the visiting Dalai Lama in Rome, despite the "very high regard" he holds for the Tibetan exile and Buddhist leader and his well known enthusiasm to meet other religious leaders.

At a cost of less than a dollar, the U.S. Navy can now destroy an incoming multimillion-dollar missile using a device that looks like a video game console linked to a 30-kilowatt laser weapon aboard ship.

He has figured in numerous bruising fights atop the ring but Floyd Mayweather, Jr. had not seen something as shocking and bloody as this – the murder-suicide via FaceTime of a close friend and the latter's wife.

Basketball took on a political color on Monday night as several players from the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets wore black "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts during their pre-game warm-ups before their NBA game in Brooklyn, New York City.

About 4.8 billion kilometers away from Earth, a small spacecraft has awaken from its hibernation and is now on course to visit the icy and mysterious Pluto, once considered as the ninth and farthest planet from our world.

A sigh of relief reverberated throughout the Philippines late on Monday after the much feared Typhoon Hagupit weakened considerably and spared the storm-battered country of further destruction.

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.

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 world's leading experts in astrophysics launched a campaign this week to raise awareness and put pressure on governments to act on the terrifying possibility that killer asteroids could strike Earth and cause massive and widespread destruction.