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Crucial meetings will be held this week in which contenders begin jockeying in earnest for the job of leading the Roman Catholic Church.

Faced with shortages and rising prices for domestic rice, many Japanese are doing what was once unthinkable — buying a foreign variety.

New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.

Mexican artists built enormous audiences singing about drug cartels and narco culture. Cities and states are now moving against the style.

The pontiff had remained surprisingly active despite twice nearly dying in respiratory crises earlier this year.

Doug Ford said he had asked his government to look into the contract that granted a 95-year lease to a European wellness company after a New York Times investigation into the deal.

Crude oil now costs 15 percent less than it did before the president revealed his plans to impose stiff new tariffs on imports from most countries.

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles.

The change affects women with atypical genetics who have been able to compete if they suppressed their testosterone levels.