Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel, indicating that there was not a two-thirds majority in the papal election at the Conclave. Photo: Getty Images Meanwhile, white smoke is produced using a much ...

Whether it is black — meaning the majority has not been reached — or white — meaning the new pope has been elected — is a matter of extreme importance to the billions of Catholics living ...

Filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. teams with his brother to tell a Nigerian family story in Un Certain Regard entry 'My Father's ...

In October 2021, the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey watched anxiously as a painting he had made just a few months earlier went ...

A Missouri mayor publicly criticized her white voters, accusing them of turning their backs on Black women in leadership after voting her out in favor of a new, white candidate. Tishaura Jones ...

War in Ukraine and the rise of the hard right in several EU member states is putting the founding democratic principles of ...

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Cities from London to Moscow are holding events this week as the world observes Thursday’s 80th anniversary of Victory in ...

ASHK is pleased to present a double feature of Hong Kong Canadian artist Michelle Fung’s animated works, Polluta and Plastic, plastic, every where!, as part of her ongoing interdisciplinary project ...

Donald Trump and Keir Starmer have hailed an 'historic' new trade deal between the US and UK. During a joint press conference on Thursday held over speaker phone, the US president said the agreement ...