Portuguese mourn Fatima witness
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Portugal buries Sister Lucia, whose visions of the Virgin Mary made Fatima a top pilgrimage site.
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About 20,000 people gathered in the centre of Amsterdam last night to pay homage to the controversial Dutch filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh, who was murdered yesterday.
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The parents of missing  four-year-old Madeleine McCann are leaving Portugal to attend an audience with the Pope in Rome.
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More than 2,000 people joined the family of Margaret Hassan in Westminster Cathedral yesterday at a memorial service for the aid worker who was murdered while a hostage in Iraq.
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QATIF, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 30 -- Fawzia al-Hani dropped her black veil over her face and wept softly on Sunday, enveloping herself in the sadness of the last days of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad and Shiite Islam's most tragic and revered martyr.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  anger that the Brazil's government has only acted to stem  rising violence in the rain forest after the murder of the  renowned foreign activist.
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Hundreds of mourners filed into a church Tuesday to pay final respects to an Emerson College student killed by a pepper-spray pellet fired by police during raucous
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Thousands turn out for the funeral of Filipino film star Fernando Poe Jr who narrowly lost this year's presidential poll.
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Prayers are being said for Margaret Hassan, the British aidworker who is believed to have been killed by her militant kidnappers in Iraq.
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AFRICA/ANGOLA - ÂSiamo grati al Santo Padre per il suo messaggio di solidarietÃ  e di speranzaÂ: forte eco per il messaggio di Papa Benedetto XVI per le vittime dellÂalluvione Luanda (Agenzia Fides)- ÂSiamo grati al Santo Padre per il suo messaggio di solidarietÃ  e di speranzaÂ dicono allÂAgenzia Fides fonti della Chiesa dellÂAngola dove Ã¨ giunto il telegramma di Papa Benedetto XVI per le vittime delle inondazioni che hann...
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  outrage that Brazil's government has only acted to stem rising  violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned  foreign activist.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II celebrated a special Mass early yesterday in his private chapel for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. Later, he publicly praised the outpouring of aid for the stricken populations as a sign of hope for 2005.
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In Pakistan, some 10,000 mourners have gathered in Karachi for the funeral services of one of two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics killed Saturday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, paying their respects to a former dictator who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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SANTIAGO -- About 5,000 supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned yesterday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses.
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Portugal declared Tuesday a day of mourning and politicians cut back election campaigning to mark the death of Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary at Fatima.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Monday, praying, crying and paying their respects to a man who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.