The coast of Louisiana is off limits to its own residents, and their livelihoods and quality of life are suffering.

Women refugees are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses in cases where they have been forced to leave their homes.

A $7.3 billion pledge is not enough to stop millions of needless deaths and not enough for the G-8 leaders to say they've lived up to their responsibilities.

A lower court ruled that an Oregon man could try to hold the Vatican financially responsible for his sexual abuse by a priest. 

An independent research group said the leading industrial nations complied with a little more than half of the promises made in 2009.

The investigators are looking at contracts Cardinal Sepe made with government officials while he was head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.