Every year, millions of visitors to Rome head to the Vatican City for religious services and to visit St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican Museums, and the Sistine ... di Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica ...

In Rome, the King and Queen will meet Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic church, and visit the Sistine Chapel, famed for its spectacular frescoes by Michelangelo and being the site where the ...

(photo: Andrea Gagliarducci) Andrea Gagliarducci Vatican January 31, 2025 The past week featured an event with significant ecumenical meaning: a joint performance of the Sistine Chapel Choir and ...

Pope Francis is set to feature in a documentary filmed in the Sistine Chapel about the universal power of pop culture and the performing arts, titled “Preacher of Beauty: A Spiritual Journey ...

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...

A brush fire started up Wednesday evening in an area of Santa Paula between the Santa Clara River and Highway 126. The blaze was first reported shortly before 7 p.m. in the 600 block of Acacia Road.

By Meryl Cates The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having dinner with her husband, the choreographer George Balanchine, at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan when the impresario Sol Hurok approached ...

By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as the ...

The woman's name was Maria Zaytsava, and she was then just 19 years old. She was among tens of thousands of people, many of them young, who had taken to the streets to protest the reelection of ...

Former European Parliament member Maria Arena was charged with participating in a criminal organization amid the Qatargate corruption scandal, she told Belgian media. Several MEPs and officials are ...

Patricia De Maria, a hardworking salesperson and native Staten Islander, died on January 17 at the age of 72. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s. Patricia was born in 1952, the daughter of ...