West Lothian households could see a 5.8% increase in Council Tax from April, when the budget is set later this month. That would add £6.73 a month, or £1.55 a week, to the bill for an average Band D ...

Assumed increase is the one council had wanted to set for the current financial year. It will see monthly bills for a Band D ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, a Hindu festival in India that is drawing hundreds of millions of pilgrims, is a powerful marketing tool for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his allies.

Pope Gelasius declared Feb. 14 as St. Valentine’s Day in 496 AD. It was not until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. Valentine’s Day became associated with ...

Pope Francis emphasized Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion.

The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...

Firecrackers, parades and prayers marked the Lunar New Year as millions around Asia and farther afield celebrated ...