Images shared with the BBC and on social media show the huge plume of smoke rising above Wigan. A spokesman for Greater ...

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 ...

Cardinals began the papal conclave at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to select a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. What ...

Following Pope Francis’ death, the Vatican begins the conclave to elect a new pope, with smoke signals from the Sistine ...

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 ...

For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...

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.

Black smoke was seen rising from a chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating no pope has been elected after the first day of ...

The plume of dark smoke indicates that the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside the chapel have not reached the required ...

Black smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel after Cardinals held the first vote to select a new pope on the first day of ...