Former Archbishop of Buenos Aires sought to bring ‘common touch’ and modernising influence to Vatican, speaking passionately ...

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This is the third in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each World Cup, from Uruguay in 1930 through to ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...

What is a democracy anyway? In the current political climate, the media and politicians throw around many terms. Words like ...

Less a true belief than a cynical way to control and stifle opposition, fascism emerged in the early 20th century in Italy, ...

Benito Mussolini (far left ... lines of power’ is immense,” it is foolish to “imagine that in a country as vast as Russia, historical knowledge and concrete memories can be totally ...

The far-right government of Giorgia Meloni wants to rehabilitate this movement, which celebrated speed, power, industrial ...

From Cairns to the Cape, Leichhardt is up for grabs with the departure of long-serving MP Warren Entsch. We go behind the ...

Australia should learn from five world leaders who are reforming their countries by putting a pink bulldozer through wasteful ...

Authoritarian regimes make crushing unions a top priority for a reason: Strong, independent unions are the best safeguard ...