- A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church and the Vatican’s head of state.
- Cardinals gathered Tuesday at the Vatican to begin scheduling Pope Francis’ funeral and burial, planning the conclave to elect his successor and making other decisions about running the Catholic Church as world leaders and ordinary faithful grieved the death of history’s first Latin American pope.
- The Vatican published Tuesday a photo and video of Pope Francis in his open coffin, dressed in a red robe with the papal mitre on his head and a rosary in his hand.
- After spending more than five weeks in hospital for a bout of double pneumonia, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months' rest - but the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics kept working right to the end.
- China is expected to launch a new crewed mission into space this week, as Beijing takes steady steps towards its goal of putting astronauts on the Moon.
- Pope Francis died of a stroke, causing a coma and "irreversible" heart failure, according to his death certificate released by the Vatican on Monday.
- Pope Francis touched down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, minutes after 4 p.m. on the 25th of November, 2015, to a warm reception by the then President Uhuru Kenyatta.
- As an at-times unwitting star on social media, Pope Francis knew how to exploit the internet to preach the gospel, broadening the Church's appeal while modernising its communications.
- US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fought back Monday -- with White House support -- against another scandal over his reported use of Signal to discuss airstrikes on Yemen, this time with his wife, brother and lawyer.
- President William Ruto will visit Beijing and meet with President Xi Jinping as reciprocal trade tariffs between America and Beijing deepen, and shockwaves in the aftermath of the tariffs rip through the global markets.
- Some cardinals who are being talked about as "papabili" to succeed Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 was announced by the Vatican on Monday.
- The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem in Latin and supreme leader -- the pope.
- African leaders praised the "legacy of compassion" and "commitment to inclusivity" of Pope Francis as they joined global mourning over his death on Monday.
- South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in clashes which led to the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar and a spiralling political crisis.
- A hush reigned over the normally boisterous St Peter's Square on Monday as the faithful and the curious alike gathered at the seat of Catholicism to mark the death of Pope Francis.
- The Eiffel Tower's landmark illuminations will be switched off on Monday night in memory of Pope Francis who died aged 88, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said.
- Sunday's scheduled canonisation of the Catholic Church's first millennial saint has been postponed to a later date after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican said on Monday.
- With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, Roman Catholics around the globe will start speculating on who among the red-robed cardinals will succeed him.
- Pope Francis admitted he was "not among the best" and that "he had two left feet", he often played as goalkeeper, which he said was a good way of learning how to respond to "dangers that could arrive from anywhere".
- A 26-year-old woman died on Saturday from health complications at the Nakuru County Referral and Teaching Hospital after undergoing an emergency cesarean section.
- Pope Francis navigated a complex relationship with politics in Argentina, a juggling act observers say explains why he never once returned to the country that informed his love for the downtrodden, for tango and for soccer.
- When Pope Francis took over in 2013, the Catholic Church was embroiled in a global scandal over child sex abuse by priests, and the institution's attempts to cover it up.
- Pope Francis, who died Monday aged 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of underdogs who forged a more compassionate Catholic Church while stopping short of overhauling centuries-old dogma.
- The death of Pope Francis on Monday sets in motion centuries-old traditions which will culminate in the election by cardinals of a new pontiff -- but with a few changes.
- Embakasi East Member of Parliament (MP) Babu Owino has suggested a potential joint presidential bid in 2027 with his Kiharu counterpart Ndindi Nyoro.
- A number of people are feared dead after a septic tank collapsed beneath a local football viewing hall in Bamburi Mwisho area, Nyali Constituency, Mombasa County.
- Britain said on Sunday two of its fighter jets had intercepted Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea close to NATO alliance airspace in separate incidents on Tuesday and Thursday.
- South Sudanese government forces have retaken the town of Nasir which had been a flashpoint in a deepening political crisis, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
- Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has threatened to take legal action to contest the grabbing of 16 16-acre piece of land belonging to the Congo Mosque in Kwale County.
- In a bid to re-affirm Nairobi's long-standing diplomatic and economic ties with Beijing, the week-long deliberations with his host President Xi Jinping will focus on Debt payment and financing for major infrastructure projects, which include the extension of the Standard Guage Railway from Naivasha…
- In Kagina village, Kibutha area of Kangema constituency in Murang’a County, a family is counting losses after a late-night landslide destroyed their home, reducing their belongings to rubble. They survived by a whisker.
- Chaplain Volodymyr was in the middle of his Easter prayer near the front in Ukraine's Donetsk region when another explosion blasted out, piercing the air despite a 30-hour truce announced by Russia for the holiday.
- Newly sworn-in Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Human Capital Development and Special Programmes, Geoffrey Ruku, has called on Kenyans to rally behind President William Ruto and his deputy, Prof. Kithure Kindiki, in a bid to foster development and national progress.
- The government has addressed recent media reports painting a worrying picture of the state of gambling in the country, which placed the amount Kenyans spent on betting in Kenya last year at a staggering Ksh.766 billion.
- A fisherman was killed on Sunday during a fight among Lake Victoria fishermen near Misori beach in Gembe, Homa-Bay County, over the ownership of fishing grounds.
- Pope Francis called for freedom of thought and tolerance in his Easter Sunday address, as the weakened pontiff made a hoped-for holiday appearance, even circling St Peter's Square in his popemobile.
