He was a close confidant of the previous pontiff, Pope Francis, and we learnt a lot about what he might be planning to do after his brief speech.

Jack Brearley and Brodie Palmer are found guilty by a WA Supreme Court jury of the murder of Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey, who died after being savagely beaten with a metal shopping trolley ...

The minor party leader has officially conceded defeat in his long-held seat of Melbourne, clearing the way for the Greens to appoint a new federal captain. Photo shows Jacinta stands in front of Peter ...

Sequestered cardinals are deliberating for a second day inside Vatican City as they attempt to pick a new pope. They haven't reached a decision yet but there's expected to be two more votes on ...

More than 130 cardinals will vote today and up to four times on subsequent days until a successor to Pope Francis is elected.

The writing was on the wall for Peter Dutton long before Anthony Albanese fired the starter's gun on the election race that would see the Coalition decimated.

Greens leader Adam Bandt has little in common with defeated Liberal leader Peter Dutton, but the pair now share the misfortune of being party leaders who lost their own seats in an election that saw ...