Pope Francis’ wooden coffin is to be sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying in state at the Vatican. About 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Francis, who was the first pope from…

Two Mexican activists who publicized a grisly “extermination camp” linked to organized crime were killed on Thursday in Jalisco, according to Mexican authorities. The victims are María del Carmen Morales and her son Jaime Daniel Ramírez Morales, both activists for the rights of missing people in Mexico. Morales is part…

Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in an attack in a gold mining village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, residents and Amnesty International said. Details on a possible motive for the attack were not immediately known but Zamfara state has grappled with kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs, who…

Ruma was having lunch on a summer day in 2021 when her phone began blowing up with notifications. When she opened the messages, they were devastating. Photos of her face had been taken from social media and edited onto naked bodies, shared with dozens of users in a chat room…

Virginia Giuffre, who alleged Britain’s Prince Andrew abused her when she was a teenager, has died by suicide, her family said. She was 41. Police confirmed that emergency services found a woman unresponsive in her home near Perth, Western Australia, on Friday night. She was pronounced dead at the scene…

Throngs of mourners are gathering in Vatican City and lining the streets of Rome on Saturday to give a final send-off to Pope Francis, who will be remembered as a champion of migrants and the poor, and for his efforts to reshape the Catholic Church. His funeral Mass is being…