VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis entered his 80th year on Thursday amid hopes among his critics that it will be his last – at least as pope. While Francis remains enormously popular among most rank-and-file Catholics, a small but vocal group of conservatives who have never much cared for …

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders were gathering Thursday for a potentially divisive debate amid a migration crisis on whether to create a new border guard with powers to unilaterally deploy to countries unable to manage their borders. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have entered Greece this year, hopping into …

NEW YORK (AP) – Want even your younger kids to join the tech revolution by learning to code? Maybe you should get them a robot – or at least a video game. That’s the aim of entrepreneurs behind new coding toys for kids as young as 6. They’re spurred by …