Day: May 3, 2025

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope.

At least six people are dead and dozens injured after a stampede at a religious gathering in the western Indian state of Goa. The Press Trust of India news agency said the stampede broke out as thousands of devotees thronged narrow lanes leading to a temple in Shirgao village early Saturday.

When the WNBA’s preseason slate began Friday night, the platform used to present the pair of games captured a stark difference from the streaming debacles that defined 2024.

Sudan’s notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allied militias have rampaged through the country’s largest camp for displaced people in Darfur.

Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water or medicine into the besieged territory until it can prevent Hamas and other militants from siphoning it away from Palestinian civilians.

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols provides an insider’s view of what’s going on in these days before the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis.