Tens of thousands of travellers have descended on the city for the funeral of Pope Francis and the election of a new pontiff.

Phone signal will be cut off at 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, an hour and a half before the cardinals are scheduled to proceed to the Sistine Chapel to begin the papal conclave, Italian ...

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...