Today in History for Dec. 6: In 1752, a government pamphlet in Halifax became the first book published in Canada. In 1780, Jean-Antoine Aide-Crequy, the first Canadian-born painter, died in Quebec ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope.     The fatal shooting of conservative ...

The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts. Pope Francis died in April, ...

In 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, ...

South Korea’s Jogye Order demands the withdrawal of the World Youth Day 2027 support bill. Plus: Myanmar refugee visa ...

Iran will introduce a new gasoline price tier on Dec. 6, raising the cost of fuel purchased beyond monthly quotas to 50,000 rials per liter, which is about 4 cents ...

Excited families are greeting relatives released from Myanmar’s Insein Prison as part of a mass amnesty granted by the ...

Marines hit retention goal, UK tests laser weapon, Ukraine peace talks gain traction. Here’s what’s making headlines this ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school ...

In a firm call to avoid “false mercy” in marriage annulment proceedings, Pope Leo XIV reminded that compassion cannot disregard the truth. During a Friday audience with participants in the ...

“A moment of great familiarity” is how Abbess Maria Cristina Daguati of the Augustinian convent in Montefalco, Italy, described Pope Leo XIV’s visit on Thursday. After visiting the tomb of St. Francis ...