England has the dubious honour of being the birthplace of that libel. In Norwich, in 1144, a boy called William was found ...

By choosing the name Leo XIV, the pope has indicated that he won’t merely be progressive or conservative.

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls ...

"The name's not going to have a straight line through history. It's going to be crooked," Harper says. "My guess is that it's medieval. It's coming up through the Mediterranean." Anatoly Liberman, a ...

Most of London’s rivers carry medieval names but one, the Brent (top left), is thought to come from a Celtic term such as brigant, meaning high or elevated. Celtic place names are very rare in ...

Patel is also writing the feature that Thunder Road, the banner behind the bullet-blazing ... as well as notes of King Arthur as it mashes up medieval knights with feudal India.

Now, his classmates hope to carry his legacy to future Tigers through a scholarship in his name. "Being able to keep his legacy going for all the younger classmen to see, is just amazing,” said ...