Pablo Escobar may have been the world's top drug lord and blamed for 15,000 murders, but to his son, he was "a dad like any other" who read stories and sang him to sleep. "When I had the chance to talk with my dad about his behavior... I felt between a rock and a hard place because I ...

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S. border. Gunmen pulled truck and bus drivers out of their vehicles in the wealthy business city and used them to set up blockades ...

The pope should apologise to Irish sex abuse victims and admit the Catholic church abused its power and deliberately covered up the activities of paedophile priests, a leading victims' group said Friday. The One in Four group set out what they want Pope Benedict XVI to say in his pastoral letter to Ireland's Catholics about the clerical abuse scandal ...

There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal. Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, told BBC television that although "scandalous", cases of child abuse by clergy ...