September 4, 2016 Mother Teresa declared a saint by Catholic Church Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created."
September 4, 2016 The Latest: Pope invites 1,500 homeless for lunch at Vatican The Latest on the canonization of Mother Teresa (all times local): 8:25 a.m.
September 4, 2016 Former Istanbul police chief jailed in post-coup sweep Turkey's state-run news agency says a former Istanbul police chief has been sent to jail as part of the probe into the movement allegedly behind an abortive military coup.
September 4, 2016 Mother Teresa: The Saint of Mercy for our time It is fitting that Mother Teresa is being canonized in the Jubilee Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis.
September 3, 2016 Pope hails volunteers on eve of Mother Teresa sainthood Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India's destitute.
September 3, 2016 Uzbekistan's autocratic president to be buried Islam Karimov, whose harsh and ill-tempered rule governed Uzbekistan for a quarter-century, is to be buried in his home city of Samarkand.
September 3, 2016 Mother Teresa and me: Visa for a saint I will never forget the day in early August 1989 when Mother Teresa came to the Albanian Embassy in Rome to receive her first visa...
September 3, 2016 AP EXPLAINS: Saints, miracles and Mother Teresa For many of the poor and destitute whom Mother Teresa served, the tiny nun was a living saint.
September 3, 2016 Bangladesh police kill alleged militant tied to Dhaka attack Bangladesh police launched an overnight raid and killed a man who allegedly trained the Islamist militants believed to have carried out the July hostage-taking in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter that left 20 people dead including 17 foreigners.