Of the 135 cardinals who will participate in the secretive Vatican conclave a few weeks after the pope’s death, about two dozen are considered “papabili” — or “pope material” in Italian — potential ...

The Israeli military has admitted to “professional failures” and said it would sack an officer, after an incident in which ...

Steve Pitstick has been farming in the US Midwest for 51 years, about an hour outside Chicago, the city that grain built.

CATL has unveiled upgraded battery cells it claims can offer faster charging for electric vehicles than its rival BYD, ...

New methods will remove need for nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, key raw materials in high demand since war in Ukraine ...

Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.4bn Catholics, has died at the age of 88, the Vatican announced on Monday, weeks after he returned home from hospital having battled double pneumonia. In his last ...

As it happens, successive US administrations — Bill Clinton’s, George W Bush’s, Joe Biden’s — did work on aligning ...

In an interview last year, Vance cited Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as a model for dealing with universities. Under Orban, the Central European University was forced out of Hungary. Vance suggested that ...

Although Francis’s predecessor Pope Benedict declared the number of electors should be capped at 120, Francis’s hectic pace of appointments, including 20 new voting-age cardinals just named in ...

Company payments into UK staff pensions have fallen 16 per cent over the past three years, or 30 per cent after adjusting for inflation, prompting worries about whether businesses are doing enough to ...

Threats to global growth are rising as the US-driven trade shock crushes confidence and slams financial markets, according to research for the Financial Times. The findings come ahead of key meetings ...

Harvard University’s oldest-standing building, the Massachusetts Hall, was used as an army barracks during the Revolutionary ...