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Catholic cardinals impressed by Barack Obama’s rise to power may be encouraged to elect the first black pope, according to a Brazilian theologian once silenced by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became pope.
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Pope Benedict XVI is the first pontiff to resign since Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 to resolve a dispute over who should lead the Catholic Church.
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Marble has been mined from the hills near Carrara in Tuscany for more than 2,000 years. The local stone, prized for its delicate veining pattern, was used to build the Pantheon in ancient Rome and Florence’s cathedral.
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Albert Cameo, leader of what remains of the Jewish community in Syria, says he’s trying to fulfill an obligation to his religious heritage.
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There was never a doubt that President Herbert Hoover would be renominated as the Republican Party’s standard-bearer in June 1932.
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At 10 a.m. on a hot Friday, Antonio Rodriguez Alvarez and his brother, Francisco, sit outside a bar in Ecija, Spain, drinking an anise liquor with water. Unemployed laborers, they visit the job center daily at 9 a.m. in search of work. When there is none, they repair to the bar and worry.
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I never thought I’d find myself writing these words: The Turner Prize exhibition of 2012 at Tate Britain is actually entertaining.
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As he clambered out of bed and onto his feet one morning late last year, Miguel Angel Cardona, 62, felt his body betray him. His head grew so heavy it pulled him tumbling back down.
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As European officials haggled over the latest solution to Greece’s debt crisis last month, Jean- Claude Trichet circled the 1,200 year-old marble throne of Charlemagne in the German city of Aachen.
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While Tunisians sort out their future after a distraught vendor sparked the Arab protests in December 2010, the country’s past continues to attract the World Monuments Fund.
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