Pope Leo XIV has made a significant U.S. appointment by naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York.

LAUSANNE – The IOC took a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports Thursday by advising governing bodies to let the countries’ youth teams and athletes compete with their ...

Discover the 20 top historical drama TV shows, spanning three continents from ancient Rome to the 20th century, organized ...

Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes, but the U.N.’s ...

For her first Olympics as IOC president Kirsty Coventry could probably order up a helicopter if she so desired to get from ...

A preliminary cauldron has been lit by the Olympic flame at Italy’s presidential palace as the countdown to the Milan Cortina ...

Hundreds of people paid their final respects to Nicola Pietrangeli days after the tennis great died aged 92. A public viewing of Pietrangeli’s body and a brief memorial service were held ...

MILAN (AP) — The Prada Group closed the purchase of Milan fashion rival Versace in a $1.375 billion cash deal that puts the ...

Giuliano da Empoli’s slim volume The Hour of the Predator may be little, but it is fierce. In the book’s 144 pages, the Swiss-Italian novelist (The Wizard of the Kremlin), political scientist and ...

The House of Borgia, one of the most infamous families of the Renaissance, is synonymous with ambition, power, and scandal. Pope Alexander VI, born Rodrigo Borgia, epitomizes their controversial ...

St. Francis Borgia was born on Oct. 28, 1510, in Spain. He was the son of the Duke of Gandia, the great grandson of Pope Alexander VI, on his father’s side, and of King Ferdinand of Aragon on his ...