Italy has reported more than 1,800 cases of the China-born virus and 66 people have died while nearly 150 have recovered, while the rest allegedly remain in quarantine. Most of the cases were reported in northern Italy, near Milan and Venice.

Filmed over four years, the film is about the change that has come to Hoxton, the city’s latest chic, hipsterish district.

Isabel Allende's novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.

The German bishops are due to hold their next regularly scheduled elections at the spring full assembly in early March in Mainz.

J. W. Mohnhaupt’s first book, The Zookeepers’ War, is an earnest plunge into the extraordinary history behind Berlin’s competing zoos during the Cold War.

ZdK president Thomas Sternberg told Germany’s Catholic News Agency (KNA): “There is criticism that disqualifies itself. It is so removed from everyday life that it cannot be taken seriously.”