Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The stuccoed facade of an old palazzo at the top of Via di Ripetta is unassuming by Roman standards.

There are a number of routes that pilgrims can take on their journey to Rome, and one of the most iconic is the Romea Strata, a historic road that has guided travelers from Central and Eastern ...

Nelson, with a detail of Michelangelo’s 1499 Pietà at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (photo: Cornell University Press / Shutterstock) Aaron Lambert Features January 1, 2025 The Pietà, ...

The Byzantine Papacy was actually a rather long period of more than two centuries when the popes in Rome were strongly influenced by the Byzantine Empire. It lasted from 537 to 752 AD and during this ...

Mansfield Police Chief Jason Bammann said the cold case of Debra Lee Miller, a local waitress beaten to death with an oven grate in her apartment on April 29, 1981, was reopened in 2021 to account ...

The 18-year-old waitress was found brutally beaten to death in her apartment on April 29, 1981. Her case remained a mystery, until now. Police in Mansfield say Miller was killed by James Vanest ...

“Rome is called to welcome everyone so that everyone can recognize themselves as children of God and brothers and sisters among themselves,” the Holy Father said during a brief homily ...

MANSFIELD, Ohio (WJW) — Authorities in Richland County said a suspect killed last month during a shootout with police in Stark County has now been linked through DNA analysis to the 1981 murder ...

A police shootout led authorities in Ohio to solve a cold case murder from 1981. Swat police and U.S. Marshals swarmed a motel room near North Canton last month. The man inside died after ...

But by 1985, there was a meat shortage in the USSR. Why? Carter’s grain embargo, although ended by Reagan in 1981, had a lasting impact on livestock feed that resulted in Russian farmers decreasing ...