A cargo ship slammed into the port in Genoa, Italy, today, toppling the control tower and killing at least three people, news reports said.

Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century and became history’s most-travelled pope, died tonight in his Vatican apartment. He was 84.

In a sign of the decline of Pope John Paul II's decline, several cardinals from the US and Latin America said they were heading to Rome.