4 h. ago Heavenly housemate! Pope Leo moves in to a palatial Vatican flatshare with pals

Days after his election, the Pope announced he would live in the luxurious Papal apartments in Rome's Apostolic Palace, unlike his predecessor Pope Francis .

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17 h. ago Death toll rises to 358 after flash floods engulf homes in northwest Pakistan: ‘It came without warning’

More cloudbursts are expected to intensify problems for people already rendered homeless

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43 h. ago Fuming neighbours forced into disgusting 'poo' row over abandoned home

Seething locals have found a unique way to protest against a derelict property that has been sat vacant for the past six years, attracting vermin and homeless people looking for shelter

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45 h. ago Pope Leo invites local homeless people to lunch at summer villa

Pope Leo XIV has spent the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen homeless people and the church volunteers who help them

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56 h. ago London children invited to design their dream cake in competition run by local store

London children invited to design their dream cake in competition run by local store  London Post

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68 h. ago Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for local homeless people, invites them to lunch at summer villa

Pope Leo XIV is spending the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen homeless and poor people and the church volunteers who help them

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4 d. ago 100 days of Pope Leo XIV: a calm papacy that avoids polemics is coming into focus

Pope Leo XIV is marking his first 100 days in office, showing a mix of continuity with and change from Pope Francis' papacy

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5 d. ago Scottish pupil named a Time magazine girl of the year for solar

Rebecca Young, 13, named one of 10 girls of the year for her invention intended to help rough sleepers in winterA Scottish schoolgirl has been named a “girl of the year” by Time magazine after she invented a solar-powered thermal blanket to help rough sleepers keep warm.Rebecca Young, 13, came up with her design after seeing homeless people struggling in subzero temperatures on the streets of her home city, Glasgow, in winter. She said her message to young people was: “If you see a problem you think you can fix, you can do something about it.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Scot, 12, named on Time’s first Girls of the Year list after homelessness design

Rebecca Young, from Glasgow, designed a solar-powered backpack with an electric blanket inside to help homeless people.

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7 d. ago White House says homeless people in DC will be forced into shelters or put in jail. Advocates say ‘that should terrify everyone’

Trump is criminalizing homelessness while doing ‘nothing’ to make housing more affordable, critics tell Alex Woodward

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7 d. ago Trump says crime in Washington DC is ‘out of control’. The stats suggest otherwise

President insists capital in need of ‘liberation’ from ‘violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people’ but data says no such problem exists

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7 d. ago Madonna urges Pope Leo to go to Gaza ‘before it is too late’

Pope Leo, who became the first US head of the Catholic Church in May, renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in July.

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8 d. ago Over 40 rough sleepers line Oxford Street with makeshift beds after migrant 'shanty town' is cleared

More than 40 rough sleepers have set up camp on Britain's most famous shopping street just weeks after a 'tent city' of homeless people was broken up. 

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8 d. ago Trump to hold press conference after ordering homeless to leave Washington DC – US politics live

President says he has plans to make capital ‘safer and more beautiful’ after social media attack on homeless peoplePresident Donald Trump’s news conference is due to take place in about two-and-a-half hours and it follows his Truth Social promising the new measures“will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district, without explaining how.In a subsequent post, he said that the news conference at 10am on Monday, “will not only involve ending the Crime, Murder, and Death in our Nation’s Capital, but will also be about Cleanliness”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 'I let homeless people sleep on my sofa, even my mum thinks I'm mad'

Over the past five years Stuart Potts has offered hundreds of homeless people a place to stay

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1 week ago Tom Kerridge, Mary Berry and Ainsley Harriot share their recipes for the perfect summer lunch

Each year, the Eden Project invites people across the country to lunch together

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1 week ago Secret government docs reveal 'utter devastation' if Hiroshima bomb was dropped on London

A blast the size of Hiroshima would render London a flattened wasteland, killing 50,000 people and leaving 400,000 homeless, according to secret government maps

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2 w. ago Pope Leo brings youth jubilee to a close with mass for more than a million

Pontiff presides over culmination of ‘Catholic Woodstock’ that drew young people from 146 countriesPope Leo XIV presided over a mass in Rome for more than a million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Catholics from across the world.“Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less,” the pope told the crowd. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘He is keeping his cards close to his chest’: Pope Leo’s first three months

The Augustinian emphasis on unity, listening, community and collaboration appears to be guiding the new pontiffA few days after his election as pope in May, Leo XIV stepped into a chauffeur-driven black Volkswagen minivan with tinted windows and made a surprise visit to the international headquarters of the Augustinian order in Rome.Not only was he the first American pope, the tiny religious order that Leo, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, ran for 12 years had also just produced its first pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic church. Still somewhat bewildered by his election, he had a yearning to see his fellow Augustinian brothers. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pope Leo XIV urges over 1 million Catholic young people to spread faith and enthusiasm

Pope Leo XIV has urged over a million Catholic youths to spread their faith and enthusiasm as they return to 150 countries

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