It is not just that he broke barriers as the first pontiff from Latin America. Nor even that he preached tolerance — although ...

Sergey Karyakin, a chess grandmaster born in Crimea — the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — has been a vocal supporter for years of Putin’s war. Lately, he has traded his chess ...

The Vatican said in a statement later Monday that Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led to irreversible ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for ...

A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers ...

Having big ambitions, Dykmans jokingly announces his own plan to change the city for the better. "If I were the dictator of Brussels, there would be zero cars allowed in the city." However, he admits ...