Michael Buble and his wife are expecting a baby boy.

World and religious leaders have welcomed the election of Argentine cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the papacy.

The first South American, the first non-European in more than a millennium and the first Jesuit, a new era in the Catholic Church was ushered in as Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was last night elected Pope Francis I.

Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio was tonight elected pope – the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.