There are more fires on a Tuesday while fires are less likely on a Sunday says a new study done by University of Melbourne. The study highlights the dramatic effect of humans, religion and culture on the global climate. Dr….

The Governor of Washington State declared a state of emergency after heavy rain for days flooded rivers and causing rock and mudslides across the western part of the state. Some of the worst flooding was in Cowlitz, Lewis and Snohomish…

Thousands of birds fall from the sky. Millions of fish wash up on the shore. Honey bee populations decimated. Bats overtaken by a deadly fungus. Piglets die in droves from a mysterious disease. Toxic algal blooms that kill. These and…

Pope Francis visited with the Lutheran community in Rome November 15 and celebrated vespers and delivered a homily. The pope responded to a question from one of the participants about a marriage between a Catholic and a Lutheran. “It’s true…

Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of Jubilee at St. Peter’s Basilica on December 8 after holding a Mass, and called the faithful to pass through the door in order to rediscover God’s mercy. The pope had declared an Extraordinary…

Twenty-eight-year-old Syed Farook and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik amassed a cache of weapons and ammunition and explosive devices in their Redlands, CA home as they prepared for the deadly assault. Both were Muslims that had been radicalized in Saudi Arabia. Malik…

The European Union and Vietnam signed a free trade agreement after two years of intense negotiations, which will remove virtually all tariffs between them. “The EU and Vietnam can do great things together,” said EU Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker. Trade…

The heaviest rains in over a century caused massive flooding across the state of Tamil Nadu, in the Indian sub-continent, with more rain to come. More than a million people have been affected. Many thousands are homeless. Auto factories have…

Pope Francis visited three nations in Africa in late November, Kenya, Uganda and the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR). He had been invited by the heads of state and the local bishops in each of the three countries. In Kenya,…

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, German media have started talking of a new world war. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily wrote that the West is in “a third world war.” Tagesspiegel said “the West – in fact, the entire…

Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane Tuesday, 24 November, precipitating a long-feared crisis in Syria’s civil war. A Turkish military statement said the plane entered Turkish airspace over the town of Yayladagi, in Hatay province. This is the first…

“France cannot do everything at once,” said the French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. He was requesting military assistance from his EU partners. The French army is going in many different directions. It is waging an air war against the…