Syria Anniversary: EU Rethinks Arms Embargo

Health Needs Critical In Aleppo Updated: 9:04am UK, Friday 15 March 2013 By Dr Natalie Roberts, Doctors Without Borders I'm part of an MSF team based in the Aleppo region in the north of Syria. This area continues to see an enormous amount of...

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US Boosting Defence After North Korea Threats

The US is beefing up its missile defence systems with new interceptors after recent threats of a nuclear attack by North Korea. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced the addition of 14 interceptors in Alaska to the US-based missile defence system,...

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Syrian Arms Embargo: France Wants Ban Lifted

French president Francois Hollande has called on Europe to lift a Syrian arms embargo to help rebels fighting Bashar al Assad's regime. The ban, which was extended on February 28 for three months, prevents weapons being supplied to the opposition. ...

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China Confirms Li Keqiang As Premier

China's parliament has confirmed Communist bureaucrat Li Keqiang to the post of premier. The role involves running day-to-day government in the world's second-largest economy. "I announce that comrade Li Keqiang has been chosen as premier of the People's...

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Pope Francis: Profile Of New Catholic Leader

He's the first ever pope from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernised Argentina's conservative Catholic church. Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis is respected as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that...

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New Pope: Cardinal Bergoglio Elected

Profile: The Chemist Who Became A Pope Updated: 12:54am UK, Thursday 14 March 2013 He's the first ever pope from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernised Argentina's conservative Catholic church. Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio,...

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Pope Election: Black Smoke From Sistine Chapel

The Secret World Of The Conclave Updated: 8:04am UK, Tuesday 12 March 2013 By Michelle Clifford, Sky News Correspondent The cardinals heading into the Conclave in Rome know they won't see the world outside the Vatican walls again until they have...

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Libya: Toxic Hooch Kills 60 And Makes 700 Ill

At least 60 people have been killed and 700 made ill in the Libyan capital by a batch of poisonous homemade liquor. The scale of the alcohol poisoning is so great that hospitals in Tripoli have been overstretched with patients and some of the victims...

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Cardinals Prepare To Choose A New Pope

By Nick Pisa, Vatican City Cardinals will gather today for a ceremony steeped in tradition as they vote to elect a new Pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church. The so-called Princes of the Church will assemble in the Vatican's beautifully ornate...

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Pope: The Secret World Of The Conclave

By Michelle Clifford, Sky News Correspondent The cardinals heading into today's Conclave in Rome know they won't see the world outside the Vatican walls again until they have picked a new Pontiff. The highly secretive process has been experienced...

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India Bus Gang Rape Leader In Jail Suicide

The man accused of leading the gang rape of a student on a New Delhi bus has hanged himself in his prison cell. Ram Singh used his shirt to kill himself in the high security Tihar jail where he had been on suicide watch in an isolated cell, according...

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New Pope 'Needs To Put House In Order'

By Michelle Clifford, Senior Correspondent Jane Livesey is a straight talking, no-nonsense Brit who also happens to be a nun living and working in the power base of the Catholic faith - Rome. And she isn't short of opinions about what needs to...

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Conclave Cardinals Vote With Latin Remote

By Nick Pisa in Vatican City Cardinals taking part in secret discussions ahead of next week's Conclave to elect a new Pope have been using a remote control with buttons in Latin. The state-of-the-art devices have been handed to the so-called "Princes...

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Anger Over US Cardinal's Role At Conclave

By Greg Milam, US Correspondent Victims of sexual abuse by priests in the largest Catholic diocese in the US have spoken of their anger that its former archbishop is taking part in the process to choose the next Pope. Cardinal Roger Mahony was...

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