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Although the proportion of female researchers in Europe is increasing, the under-representation of women in scientific disciplines and careers still persists. This is the message of the latest edition of the "She Figures", published today by the European Commission. Women represent only 33% of European researchers, 20% of full professors and 15.5 % of heads of institutions in the Higher Education sector.

The growing power of minority voters in the United States, particularly the Hispanic/Latino vote, has changed the political landscape of the United States. On the national level there is now bipartisan support in Congress for immigration reform. And in a small town in northern Virginia, where a few years ago illegal immigration was a divisive political issue, public anger is fading.

Pope Francis is set to hold an audience Friday with the College of Cardinals who elected him, in his first days as the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

After only two days of voting, Roman Catholic cardinals elected Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pope to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He has chosen the name Francis and is the first pope from Latin America in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history.

Roman Catholic cardinals will meet again at the Vatican Wednesday for their second attempt to elect a successor to Pope Benedict, who resigned last month.

Feeling good about spending money on someone else rather than for personal benefit may be a universal response among people in both impoverished countries and rich nations, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

Argo, the film about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the top prize at the Academy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles, beating Lincoln, which was widely expected to win.

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican Sunday to hear Pope Benedict XVI deliver his last Sunday prayers delivered from the window of his apartment high above St. Peter's Square.