As many as 250 Catholic cardinals gathered in the Vatican ahead of the start of a conclave Wednesday afternoon to elect a new ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

About 10 soldiers were killed and seven injured in an attack in Niger's Dosso region this week, authorities said in a statement broadcast on state radio, while a security source told Reuters the death ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

Sheikh, who hailed from Krishnanagar in Nadia district, is survived by his wife Shehnaj Parveen, a six-year-old son and a ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

As Italy turned into a battleground between foreign powers, Rome suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of a marauding horde ...

The Roman army was spread across the entire globe, fighting huge campaigns that would require an enormous amount of supplies.

A Holocaust survivor who attended an interfaith VE Day anniversary celebration at the UK's oldest mosque has said it is ...

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on ...