The sect, the Society of St. Pius X, defied a direct plea from Pope Leo XIV and sought to consecrate four bishops without the Vatican's approval.

Hernan Gil was brought out on a stretcher as elated rescuers cheered and hugged each other. He was loaded into a waiting ambulance and driven away.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem. Northrop Grumman’s rocket-launching plane took off from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific on Thursday,

U.S. and Iranian negotiators met separately on Wednesday with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with "positive progress made," and they agreed to continue discussions, host Qatar said.

A bomb exploded inside a crowded cafe in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding nearly a dozen, according to Syrian authorities. Syria’s interior ministry said the blast,

Albanian police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters in Tirana, in one of the most tense confrontations since rallies over coastal development projects linked to Jared Kushner began a month ago.

Iran's ruling clerics are preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic and proof that its revolutionary fervor still burns strong.

Un grupo separatista de la región indonesia de Papúa afirmó que había abatido a tiros a un piloto estadounidense que llevó tropas indonesias a una “zona de conflicto”.