The coffin of Pope Francis is carried on the day of the funeral Mass of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 26, 2025.Kai Pfaffenbach | ReutersWorld leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes as pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants will welcome him at the basilica across town where he will be buried.Some 250,000 people flocked to the funeral, held on a brilliant spring day…
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 28, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a “very productive” meeting on Saturday in Rome, a White House official said, as both leaders attended the funeral of Pope Francis.A spokesman for Zelenskiy’s office confirmed that the meeting with Trump had taken place, but gave no further details.The meeting, their first since an angry encounter in the Oval Office in Washington in February, comes at a critical time in negotiations aimed at bringing an end…
The life and legacy of Pope Francis — a pontiff who defied easy definition and led the Roman Catholic Church through a dozen years of different phases and contradictions — are not easy to fit into a single homily.But that was the task for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, on Saturday.“He was a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” Cardinal Re said beside Francis’ coffin from the steps of St. Peter’s Square. “He was also a pope attentive to the signs of the times and what the Holy Spirit was…
India traders at the Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. office in Mumbai, India.Vivek Prakash | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse and the big businesses behind its meteoric rise. Like what you see? You can subscribe here.The big storyIndia’s stock market seems to have gotten back its mojo.While the Nifty 50 index remains more than 7% below its all-time high reached on September 26, it has rallied about 10% since bottoming out on April 7, when trade tensions between the United…
Pope Francis’ funeral will be a solemn occasion, steeped in Roman Catholic pageantry, to bid farewell to a pontiff who led the church for over a decade. But with dozens of foreign delegations attending — some from countries that are overtly hostile to one another — the funeral’s seating arrangements have also presented a possible nightmare for Vatican planners.On the list of confirmed guests: a Russian minister and Ukraine’s president. A minister from Iran and an ambassador from Israel. President Trump and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., along with the leaders of countries Mr. Trump has hit with tariffs…
Leapmotor has struck a deal with Chinese state-owned automaker FAW to deliver an electric vehicle platform that will be used to drive overseas sales for Hongqi, an emerging national champion, executives from both companies said.The deal brings together an unlikely pairing. Leapmotor, a profitable upstart automaker in China’s crowded EV market, will supply the underpinnings for a new EV model to the country’s oldest auto brand, which got its start supplying sedans for Communist Party leaders and emerged as a fast-growing premium brand in recent years.The agreement represents a win for Leapmotor, which has partnered with Stellantis and created waves…
Pope Francis’ life took him from a modest upbringing in Buenos Aires to lead the Roman Catholic Church as the first Jesuit pontiff and the first from Latin America.Across his 12 years as pope, Francis consistently elevated the causes of migrants and the disenfranchised, and pushed the church to more forcefully confront its own history of scandal. His efforts to make the church more inclusive were welcomed by his supporters and many Catholics, but some conservatives pushed back as he veered from traditional teachings.1936A Deeply Religious BoyPope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires.…
The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in discussions with investors to raise about $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.The funding would value the company at over $120 billion, according to the report.Artificial intelligence startup xAI didn’t immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment outside of U.S. business hours.The funding amount could be more than $20 billion as the exact figure…
As members of Gen Z continue to graduate high school and enter adulthood, many elect to forgo traditional college degrees.That’s in part because of the cost of getting a bachelor’s degree, they tell CNBC Make It. The annual cost of attending a four-year, in-state public college increased by about 30% between 2011 and 2023, according to Make It calculations based on data from the Education Data Initiative, and went up by 42% at private, nonprofit four-year colleges.”There are about 2 million fewer students in a traditional four-year university now than in 2011,” says Nich Tremper, senior economist at payroll and…
A third round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear activities was planned for Saturday, raising hopes for a new accord that could avert another conflict in the Middle East.“I think we’re going to make a deal with Iran. Nobody else could do that,” President Trump said in an interview with Time magazine published on Friday. Mr. Trump abandoned a previous nuclear deal with Iran in 2018 during his first term, saying it was a flawed agreement.The talks have the potential to reshape regional and global security by reducing the chance of a U.S.-backed Israeli attack…
