The US Federal Reserve is due to begin a two-day policy meeting later Tuesday, and markets overwhelmingly expected the third rate hike of the year as inflation mounts and the economy grows. Central bankers are gathering under a long shadow cast by President Donald Trump, who has...

A German court said Tuesday it could not enforce a Chilean prison sentence for a German former member of a Nazi paedophile sect for complicity in child sex abuse. It ruled that Hartmut Hopp, 74, could not be jailed because the evidence the Chilean court had provided against him fell...

The United States on Tuesday urged Hong Kong to allow freedom of expression as it voiced concern over a ban on the pro-independence party. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said the United States was "concerned" by the ban on the Hong Kong National Party, a first since...

Pope Francis on Tuesday admitted the clerical sex abuse scandals have put off some young people who believe the Catholic Church has not expressed enough condemnation. "We know -- and you have told us -- that many young people do not turn to us for anything because they don't feel we...