A 62-year-old fisherman from the Philippines was nailed to a cross in a gruesome re-enactment of the cruxifixction of Christ during a religious procession on Good Friday. The extraordinary event took place in San Juan village, north of the capital city Manila,
The Vatican says Pope Francis, who was recently hospitalized for bronchitis, won’t preside over Good Friday’s late-night Way of the Cross event due to extremely cold weather in Rome. It said that instead of presiding over the torch-lit procession at the Colosseum,
A member of Texas A&M’s cross country team was arrested this week and later suspended by the university for streaking during the Aggies’ baseball game against the Texas Longhorns, according to jail records. Spencer Werner, 19, was arrested by university police on
Two Cuban migrants used a motorised hang glider to fly the approximately 90 miles (145 kilometres) from the communist island to Key West on Saturday, Florida officials said. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said the duo landed safely at Key West International
Two aid workers with the International Committee of the Red Cross were freed in Mali on Monday, the organization announced. The staff members were released unharmed but the organization would not disclose the employees’ identities or the circumstances of the abduction. “We
Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, the
Former NFL cornerback Irv Cross, who went on to become the first Black network sports show anchor, was posthumously diagnosed with Stage 4 CTE after nearly a decade of playing in the league, the Boston University CTE Center announced Tuesday. The two-time
Taiwan has accused China of making “dozens” of incursions into its airspace with spy balloons similar to the one shot down over the U.S. last week, further contributing to rising tensions as China surrounds Taiwan with military drills. Taiwan’s Ministry of National
Fire chiefs are offering staff £1,000 a shift to cross picket lines during expected strikes – in a move branded a “terrible waste of public money”. Crews nationwide have voted to walk out as soon as next month unless they get a revised pay
Chinese military aircraft and vessels invaded Taiwan’s airspace and waters yet again early Wednesday in what has become a near daily show of intimidation against the island nation. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said four Chinese military aircraft and three Chinese naval vessels were