Gerard O’Connell is America ’s Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.

This photo gallery, curated by AP photo editors, features highlights from the final week of the Tour de France.

Thomas Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, public speaker, poet and podcaster. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the ...

Also on the ground photographing the Tour de France, AP photographers, Thibault Camus and Mosa’ab El Shamy. PANJWANI: This race, as Gethin explains, is a test of the mind and body.

Station Master's Dark Deception: Murder Mystery Unraveled Rahul Singh, a station master in Assam, was arrested after his wife's murder. Posing as a security guard in Guwahati, he was apprehended weeks ...

LUCHON-SUPERBAGNERES, France (AP) — Dutch rider Thymen Arensman won the Tour de France's toughest stage after a long solo effort over mammoth climbs and defending champion Tadej Pogačar ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, during a meeting at the Vatican June 5, 2025. The pope appointed Verny president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection ...

PARIS (OSV News) — Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, made international headlines as he succeeded one of the most acclaimed figures of church safeguarding in the world, Cardinal Sean ...

On the eve of his vacation, he made an important appointment, naming French Bishop Thibault Verny head of the Vatican’s child protection advisory board, replacing the retiring American Cardinal ...