The government will make it a crime to climb on Winston Churchill's statue in Parliament Square, it will be announced today.

If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa ...

Relations between India and Pakistan have declined sharply following a deadly militant attack on tourists in ...

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The Indian government says it has launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in response to last month's deadly attack on tourists in India-administered Kashmir. Also, the ...

So, could the new pope come from Africa? And what is at stake for the continent as the catholic church chooses its next leader? Alan Kasujja speaks to Reverend Professor Paulinus Odozor, a Professor ...