As white smoke announced the election of a new pope last week, keepers at Rome zoo celebrated the hatching of a baby bird known colloquially as a 'Pope Vulture'.

An Israeli government spokesman said Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a manhunt for the gunman who opened fire on a vehicle in the West Bank, killing a pregnant woman.

The U.S. Treasury Department Thursday sanctioned two senior Hezbollah officials and two financial facilitators for what it ...