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In a homily at Mass on the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord in Vatican City, during which he is thought to have baptised 27 newborn babies, Pope Francis urged mothers to breastfeed their newborns and make them comfortable.

Fr John McCloskey was a celebrity cleric, ministering to the conservative elite in Washington, D.C and helping convert high-profile political figures to Catholicism, including former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He wrote books and often appeared on TV. A Catholic organisation paid out almost a million pounds to settle a sex assault complaint against the top priest, it has now been revealed. Catholic Organisation Opus Dei footed the legal bill in 2005 following a complaint that McCloskey had groped a...

The calf appears to have one giant eye and no nose, in a video which locals claim hasn't been edited

The newborn was born with her 1lb 1oz sibling inside her after fetus in the fetu developed during the pregnancy

“Revealing them casually, through an unusual media exposure even if it’s the commander in chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group. There would be no denying who you are and what you do.”

The infant girl has a third hand growing out of the side of her left hand

A shutdown of government spending on certain departments is set to last until January, Donald Trump’s new acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has warned. Spending stopped flowing to many public employees in the United States on Friday after Trump and Congress failed to agree on a budget for his proposed wall. Trump refused a lower sum as a compromise and made good on his threat of a partial shutdown of government spending, changing his mind on an earlier temporary...

A seven-year-old girl has died after being taken into custody by the US Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) . The girl, from Guatemala, died of dehydration and shock eight hours after she was taken into custody, the Washington Post reported. The child and her father were being held by immigration authorities in the US state of New Mexico it said in the article. However, on December 7th, the girl was found to have a 41-degree-Celsius fever and was taken by...

Australia's Queensland coastline was once teeming with sharks, but numbers have plummeted over the past 50 years