A hush reigned over the normally boisterous St Peter's Square on Monday as the faithful and the curious alike gathered at the ...

Asian crime networks running multi-billion-dollar cyber scam centres are expanding their operations across the world as they ...

The World Economic Forum said on Monday that its founder Klaus Schwab has stepped down from the board, turning a page in the ...

Snowfall in Asia's Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people ...

The death of Pope Francis on Monday has triggered time-honoured traditions that will ultimately lead to the election of a new ...

Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced. As a pope who wanted to stay close to the people and ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement ...

His predecessor loved Mozart, but Pope Francis's passion was football, for him "the most beautiful game" and also a vehicle ...

Pope Francis navigated a complex relationship with politics in Argentina, a juggling act observers say explains why he never ...

When Pope Francis took over in 2013, the Catholic Church was embroiled in a global scandal over child sex abuse by priests, ...

Russia launched a wave of aerial attacks at Ukraine on Monday in an abrupt end to a fragile 30-hour Easter truce between the ...

Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday ...