By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — It was a modest proposal to ditch the humble apostrophe.
By Richard Fausset and Andres D'Alessandro
Los Angeles Times
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LONDON — A postmortem examination found that self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky died by hanging, and there was nothing...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Boris Berezovsky, 67, an exiled Russian ex-tycoon who played a key role in bringing Vladimir Putin to power, only to have a...
By Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — As he begins work, Pope Francis will find a pile of files in his in-tray on sex abuse and squabbling cardinals. But...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Racing against time and short on choices, Cyprus lawmakers on Friday made an abrupt about-face, agreeing to emergency...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Flights from snow-covered Russia to sunny Cyprus may be packed, but these days many of the passengers are bank account owners...
By Edmund Sanders and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — President Obama brokered a diplomatic reconciliation between key Middle East allies Israel and Turkey at the end of his...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Lawmakers in Cyprus on Tuesday voted against a controversial economic bailout plan, threatening to cripple the island...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Amid elaborate ritual and ancient symbols of Christendom, Pope Francis began the first official day of his...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Few people were more shocked at the choice of a Jesuit as pope than the Jesuits.
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Remember God's mercy and patience, he told the assembled masses. And also: "Have a good lunch."
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — A block away from Pope Francis' childhood home, a modest neighborhood church is wedged between a bakery and a bank of...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Two popes?
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI, India — The gang rape of a 39-year-old Swiss tourist while on a camping trip with her husband has further ratcheted up...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Instead of the bus, a chauffeur. No longer a tiny apartment, but a penthouse suite. Not just a new name, but his own...
By Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — In a busy first full day as head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis on Thursday showed that he intends to...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became the first pope from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — From his willingness to cook his own meals and get around by bus, to his choice of St. Francis as inspiration for his...
By Andres D'Alessandro and Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BUENOS AIRES — Argentines reacted with joyous surprise to the news that former Jesuit priest, local archbishop and, most recently,...
By Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Andrea Quintarelli had rushed to St. Peter's Square with his sister Wednesday the moment he heard that the papal...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Eight years ago, many of the men with red caps and red cloaks who walked into the Sistine Chapel to choose a pope...
By Henry Chu and Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — The gathering of Roman Catholic cardinals to pick a new pope began Tuesday with an oath of secrecy and an inaugural...
By Anthee Carassava, Los Angeles Times
ATHENS — Last month, as millions of Greeks walked off their jobs to protest prolonged fiscal austerity measures, red-alert...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic cardinals gathering here to elect the next pope have focused with unusual intensity on the management of...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — The timing said it all.
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — With the terrifying grandeur of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" looming over them, senior leaders of the Roman...
By Khristina Narizhnaya and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Police detained and questioned three people, including a principal Bolshoi Ballet dancer, as suspects in the acid attack that...
By Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
By Paul Richter and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — When John F. Kerry's political foes complained in 2004 that he "looked French" and ordered Swiss cheese on his...
By Henry Chu and Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — The Swiss Guards vanished into the palace to change out of their colorful garb, their responsibility to protect the...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — As the world's oldest subway, better known as the Tube, celebrates its 150th birthday, here's a familiar but gently tweaked...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — They packed St. Peter's Square when he was named the new pope, and they came again by the thousands to see him off.
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — Deep inside a safe in the papal apartment lies a top-secret report — for his holiness' eyes only — that has...
By Janet Stobart and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Syrian opposition members have reportedly reversed their decision to boycott a meeting in Rome on Thursday with Secretary...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
ROME — After more than a year of stable but unelected government, Italy appeared headed for a period of uncertainty Monday as...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — The day last month that Russian lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill establishing fines for spreading "propaganda"...
By David S. Cloud and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — About 100 U.S. troops have deployed to the West African country of Niger to help establish a drone base for...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
PARIS — In barely five minutes, thieves in Belgium pulled off one of the most spectacular and dramatic diamond heists in years.
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Top finance officials of the world's 20 largest economies sought Saturday to allay fear of a currency war, pledging not...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — As Russian authorities searched Saturday for remnants of the space object that startled residents of the southern Ural...
By Sergei L. Loiko and Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Without warning, a celestial object that NASA described as a "tiny asteroid" streaked above Russia's Ural Mountains early...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — He's God's own man, but Italians think he should be theirs too.
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The family of South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius denied Friday that the Olympic athlete had...
By Andrea Chang and Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Star sightings are common at the Grove, but on Thursday the breathless anticipation was for the grand opening of fashion retailer Topshop...
By Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
ROME — Weeks before Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation because of failing health, Italians were already bracing themselves...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — In the last public Mass of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI exhorted his followers Wednesday to...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
VATICAN CITY — One day soon, perhaps on a fine morning this spring, a new pope strolling through the Vatican's beautifully tended...
By Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times
In a key victory Tuesday for same-sex couples in France, a measure allowing them to marry and adopt children passed the lower house of...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
ROME — During nearly eight years leading the world's 1 billion Roman Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI zealously pursued a vision of...
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
In announcing his decision to resign the papacy, Benedict XVI said Monday that he no longer had the energy to confront the global challenges...
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
Time and again in his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against the scourge of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests, using words...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — For David Cameron, the worst-case scenario for Britain's future looks something like this:
By Tom Kington, Los Angeles Times
ROME — "For our next play, it's either Xenophon, Aristophanes or 17th century French comedy — and I would like some opinions,"...
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military checkpoint outside the northern Mali city of Gao on...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Bulgarian investigators said Tuesday that the Lebanese group Hezbollah was responsible for a July bus bombing that...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Six world powers and Iran agreed to hold talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear program this month in Kazakhstan in the...
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
Among the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler was an emaciated 13-year-old boy named Leon Leyson, who...
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
A born swashbuckler, Paddy Roy Bates fought in the Spanish Civil War as a teenager, faced a Greek firing squad in World War II and had a...
By Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times
LONDON — Her face is everywhere: on stamps, coins, mugs and book covers. Her likeness has just been reproduced for the 23rd time at...
By Hugo Martin
In God we trust. All others pay cash.
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Computer virus experts at Kaspersky Lab, acting with the blessing of the United Nations, were searching for a villain...
By Meg James
James Murdoch won an endorsement from shareholders to serve another year on the board of satellite television service British Sky...
By Jerry Hirsch
Ford Motor Co. has launched a broad restructuring of its European operations, a move that will shutter plants in England and Belgium, cost&...
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