While this process is held in secrecy, the rest of the world is informed on the group's daily decisions by white or black-colored smoke funneled from the top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke ...

And even average vehicles don't escape the hike. Brand-new cars emitting between 131 to 150g/km of CO2 are now hit with a £540 charge in the first year - a sharp increase from the previous £270.

To prevent any confusion about the color of the smoke, in the 2005 conclave that gave the Church Pope Benedict XVI, a second, more modern stove was also used. Historically, the white smoke was ...

Although the ritual may feel like something from another era, the papal conclave’s colored smoke signals only came into use in 1903, according to NBC News—a relatively recent development for a ...

ROME, Italy — When a new pope is needed, the College of Cardinals gather at the Vatican to vote and colored smoke flows out of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney depending on the result — but what ...