A massive blackout affecting Spain, Portugal, and parts of France has been blamed on atmospheric conditions. Now engineers ...

Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

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The man, Shawn Hopkins, 57, a sheriff’s deputy in Pontiac, was on a short vacation with his mother and his sister, Katrina, ...

The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

Most Germans realised long before Hitler’s self-immolation that the dictatorship had brought nothing but death and ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke, setting off mourning in the Catholic world and ...

As the Black Death swept across Europe, fear gave rise to desperation—and some believed salvation came through pain. Meet the ...