US President Barack Obama has urged world leaders to step up efforts for a "strong" climate agreement at year-end talks in Paris.
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PHILADELPHIA - Pope Francis has celebrated the final mass of his US tour with an enormous crowd in Philadelphia, after meeting victims of child sex abuse saying "God weeps" for their suffering.
NEW YORK - Governments are no longer the main drivers of foreign aid, says Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
WASHINGTON - Former US president Bill Clinton has defended his wife Hillary, the Democratic presidential frontrunner who has come under attack for using a private email server while serving as secretary of state.
BARCELONA - Separatists pushing to make Catalonia independent from Spain were on track to win an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in a regional election, an exit poll shows.
NEW YORK, Sept 27 AFP - Chinese President Xi Jinping has pressed for the world to step up efforts to improve women's rights, but his effort has been clouded by his own country's detention of feminists.
BERLIN, Sept 27 AFP - Volkswagen ignored warnings from staff and a supplier years ago that the emission test rigging software that sparked the company's worst ever corporate scandal was illegal, newspaper reports say.
