He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

Speaking to participants in the General Chapter of the Union “St. Catherine of Siena” of School Missionaries in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Francis emphasized three essential qualities ...

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of Mexico City that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

On his 88th birthday, Pope Francis reveals humor’s role in faith and recounts a foiled suicide attack during his Iraq visit ...

Just a few hundred metres from the roaring traffic of the M40, scientists have uncovered a very different kind of road. Around 166 million years ago Britain's 'dinosaur highway' was teaming with ...

This film about Adam Kinzinger, the politician of the title, benefits from the involvement of the progressive filmmaker Steve Pink. By Alissa Wilkinson In Nick Park’s latest charming stop-motion ...

Apart from the cruises that travel along the river, the famous pyramids, the mysterious pharaonic temples of the Upper Nile and the fascinating city of Cairo, there’s so much more of Egypt to visit ...

Earth from space This 2014 satellite photo shows Pakistan's Khor Kalmat tidal lagoon brimming with water at the heart of an arid desert. This fluctuating body of water, which looks like "ink ...

Population genetics is the study of the genetic composition of populations, including distributions and changes in genotype and phenotype frequency in response to the processes of natural ...

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