Cardinal Pietro Parolin, a firm favourite to replace Pope Francis is, according to his rivals; too sick, too close to China, too enmeshed in a failed London property deal or all of the above.
In a fresh outpouring of self-pity, the Duke of Sussex has once again turned on his family, British institutions, and the courts. But his attempt to win sympathy may have finally exhausted the patience of both palace insiders and the public.
A slew of major sports in Britain have abruptly changed their policies and banned biological men from women’s competitions.
King Charles has told a Buckingham Palace reception his cancer diagnosis in early 2024 had taught him to ‘find a life worth living, take risks and love deeply.’
As the cardinals prepare for the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, Pierbattista Pizzaballa has emerged as a contender who has long straddled the tensions of the Middle East.
Spain has been on a 20-year-long mission to net zero; four days before the blackout that caused complete chaos across the Iberian peninsula, the country celebrated its first day of 100 per cent renewables.
An eerie, empty atmosphere lingered over St Peter’s Square after Pope Francis’ funeral as Catholics ponder the imminent conclave and ‘what’s next?’ for the church
US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether Russian leader Vladimir Putin wants a peace deal, shortly after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the hush of St Peter’s Basilica before Pope Francis’s funeral.
Mourners were told of Pope’s call to ‘build bridges, not walls’ as Trump and Zelensky met inside St Peter’s Basilica.
Pope Francis’s coffin has arrived at Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica for burial after a moving funeral, before which Donald Trump met Volodymyr Zelensky in the Vatican.
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