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In his Christmas address to Vatican employees, the leader of the Catholic Church called for more laypersons and women in positions of power and said resistance to change came from misguided minds.

A teacher who instills a love of books and writing has beaten out 5,000 educators around the world for a global honor.

The National Book Foundation winnowed the list of contenders for its literary prize to just 20 — or five finalists each in four categories. Among them are Jesmyn Ward, Min Jin Lee and Frank Bidart.

In a heavily redacted report of its 2011 inquiry into the hiring of prostitutes in Haiti, Oxfam said three staff members physically threatened a witness interviewed by investigators.

His mental genius and physical disability made the renowned British physicist a household name. On Wednesday, people around the world grieved Hawking's death.

April is National Poetry Month and we're asking our readers to help us celebrate. We supply the hashtag — you fill our feeds with your mini works of art.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper could be ousted by liberal Justin Trudeau, son of the iconic late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

James is the first Jamaican author to win the prestigious literary award, for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. It's based on a real 1976 assassination attempt on reggae star Bob Marley.

Contrary to the reports killing off the classical music recording industry, among the many new releases for fall are two all Verdi discs by two…

There was a time when it was commonplace for composers to write music to perform themselves. Mozart and Beethoven are probably the first two who came to…