At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday backed a proposed unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, signaling that cardinals meeting in a ...

Rather than soot, the smoke contains microscopic droplets and fine solids that are transparent or white. The result is a ...

Black smoke was observed during the end of the first day of the conclave at 21:00, hours after the doors of the Sistine ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, signalling ...

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...