Construction of the bridge across the Strait of Messina will start this year, assures the Italian government. This mammoth ...

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A Mass was held at the Argentine church in Rome on Thursday for Pope Francis, as he marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in hospital.

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Francis offered a first public sign of how weak he is by recording an audio message that was broadcast in St Peter’s Square.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was resting Thursday after a peaceful night during his third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia, the Vatican said.

A major exhibition dedicated to baroque master Caravaggio opens on Friday in Rome, including normally out-of-reach works from private collections and others not seen in the artist's Italian homeland ...

The Vatican said Francis continued respiratory and other physical therapy on Thursday, and worked, rested and prayed from the 10th floor papal suite at Rome’s Gemelli hospital ... be presided over by ...

There have been many reincarnations of London Bridge since the original Roman crossing in AD50. The most famous and longstanding of these was the “Old” Medieval bridge, finished in 1209 during the ...

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Four people, including two Chinese nationals, were killed and six injured after a bridge collapsed at an expressway construction site in South Korea on Tuesday, authorities said. Local media aired ...