The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial concluded its first day of deliberations yesterday without reaching a verdict on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is guilty of the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 others.

POPE Benedict XVI made history yesterday by becoming the first pontiff to step foot inside Lambeth Palace.

Pope John Paul II has expressed "deep pain" over the abduction of a senior bishop in Colombia and is appealing for the prelate's release.

THE Philippines' largest association of Roman Catholic bishops apologised yesterday for what it said were grave cases of sexual misconduct by priests.