Balanced News Blog

Catholic bishops say the Church is suffering from a worldwide shortage of priests, but say allowing marriage is not the answer.

Pirates have seized a gas oil tanker and possibly another ship carrying food to Somalia in the latest of a series of hijackings off the lawless Horn of Africa nation, maritime officials said on Monday.

Three loud blasts on Monday rocked an area near two Baghdad hotels used by journalists and foreign contractors.

A United Airlines pilot was removed from the cockpit and questioned by police after security screeners at Miami International Airport reported smelling alcohol, police said.

The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight, according to previously classified documents to be released today.

The American Friends Service Committee is planning to hold parties around the country when the 2000th American soldier dies in Iraq. This is clearly one of the most sickening and perverted uses of our fallen heroes ever conceived.

A rat released on a deserted island off New Zealand outsmarted scientists and evaded traps, baits and sniffer dogs.

Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski of the nationalist Law and Justice Party won Poland’s presidential runoff Sunday