Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful of the world ...

Ancient Athens had its own "Great Wall" like China's, built to stop raids during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).

Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

Dozens of world leaders, at least 11 reigning monarchs and tens of thousands of mourners were on hand to give Pope Francis a ...

Before his death on April 21, 2025, Pope Francis made a lengthy statement beginning with, "The walls of hospitals have heard ...

During his homily, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re echoed Pope Francis’ call to “build bridges, not walls." During President Trump’s 2016 election campaign, when he promised to build a wall at the ...

Jessica Goldman Srebnick, the museum’s curator and the daughter of its creator, Tony Goldman, discussed her role and her ...

Suzanne Kapner writes about the retail industry for The Wall Street Journal from New York. Her coverage area includes department stores like Macy’s, JCPenney and Neiman Marcus, as well as ...

A sleepy peninsula west of Athens, the Peloponnese offers uniquely Greek experiences ranging from visits to olive farms, boat ...

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Anne Tergesen has long covered retirement and personal finance, first at BusinessWeek magazine and since 2008 at The Wall Street Journal. She writes frequently about the myriad ways in which ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...