Rome: Pope Benedict XVI’s dashing personal secretary Georg Gaenswein has made the front page of the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, under the headline “being beautiful is not a sin.”

Soot is the second-biggest human contributor to global warming behind carbon dioxide, and its impact on climate change has until now been sharply underestimated, a new study has revealed.

US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that the US goal in Afghanistan was “within reach” as he vowed to move ahead with a timetable to end the 11-year-old military campaign and focus on a broad domestic agenda.

Twenty years after his death, Rudolf Nureyev’s legacy still lights up the world of ballet as brilliantly as the flamboyant performances which once illuminated the greatest stages. “As long as they are putting on my ballets, I will live on,” Brigitte Lefevre, dance director of the Paris Opera, recalls Nureyev saying in the years before the ravages of AIDS finally claimed him, aged 54, on January 6, 1993.

The 2013 Oscars show will include a tribute to the James Bond movie franchise, celebrating its 50th anniversary with the record-breaking blockbuster Skyfall, organisers said Friday.

A team of Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients.

Legislators in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives are considering legislation to stave off America’s fiscal crisis after a last-gasp deal on taxes passed the Senate overnight.

More than 23,000 British police officers and staff earn a second income from non-police work, a rise of nearly 20 per cent in a year, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Australia skittled out Sri Lanka for 156 and trailed by just six runs after an eventful opening day saw 13 wickets fall in the second Melbourne Test today.

All 27 people on board a Kazakh military jet that crashed while carrying the Central Asian state’s top border guard personnel have died, the state security service said today.