April 28 marks the day Dennis Tito, a millionaire businessman from the US, became the world’s first space tourist in 2001. He ...

What makes President Trump think that a simple social media post is going to be enough to stop Russian leader Vladimir ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem in Latin and supreme leader -- the pope.

Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are among the elected bishops of Rome who have led the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis often spoke with great sympathy for immigrants and refugees. NPR's Scott Simon reminds us that the Pope's father ...

For nearly two decades, millions of Italians, and thousands of Jews, believed in Benito Mussolini as the man to make things ...

Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...

The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...

Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s ...

While the parallels between Berlusconi and Trump are striking—arguably, Berlusconi wrote the playbook for billionaire ...