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The Pope left the Vatican in a motorcade before boarding a helicopter to the papal retreat Continue reading the main story Pope resigns Two-pope problem Runners and riders The Pope's inbox World's Catholics Pope Benedict XVI has officially resigned, saying that he now "will simply be a pilgrim" starting his last journey on earth. The pontiff, aged 85, was earlier flown by helicopter from the Vatican to his retreat at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The college of cardinals, headed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, is now in charge of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics until a new pope is elected. Benedict vowed "unconditional obedience and reverence" to his successor. He stepped down after nearly eight years in office - the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. Continue reading the main story Analysis James Robbins BBC News, Rome A cardinal, who was inside the Clementine Hall of the Vatican to take his leave of Pope Bene...

The Pope left the Vatican in a motorcade before boarding a helicopter to the papal retreat Continue reading the main story Pope resigns Two-pope problem Runners and riders The Pope's inbox World's Catholics Pope Benedict XVI has officially resigned, saying that he now "will simply be a pilgrim" starting his last journey on earth. The pontiff, aged 85, was earlier flown by helicopter from the Vatican to his retreat at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The college of cardinals, headed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, is now in charge of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics until a new pope is elected. Benedict vowed "unconditional obedience and reverence" to his successor. He stepped down after nearly eight years in office - the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. Continue reading the main story Analysis James Robbins BBC News, Rome A cardinal, who was inside the Clementine Hall of the Vatican to take his leave of Pope Bene...

The Pope left the Vatican in a motorcade before boarding a helicopter to the papal retreat Continue reading the main story Pope resigns Two-pope problem Runners and riders The Pope's inbox World's Catholics Pope Benedict XVI has officially resigned, saying that he now "will simply be a pilgrim" starting his last journey on earth. The pontiff, aged 85, was earlier flown by helicopter from the Vatican to his retreat at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The college of cardinals, headed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, is now in charge of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics until a new pope is elected. Benedict vowed "unconditional obedience and reverence" to his successor. He stepped down after nearly eight years in office - the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. Continue reading the main story Analysis James Robbins BBC News, Rome A cardinal, who was inside the Clementine Hall of the Vatican to take his leave of Pope Bene...

| credits: OPPOSITION figures on Thursday stepped up the marketing of their newly-christened joint party, the All Progressive Congress, with a promise that the new platform would bring an end to the rule of the Peoples Democratic Party. Former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, a key component of the new alliance, Bola Tinubu, described the years of PDP in power as the rule of “scavengers and wayfarers.” “What we have now are wayfarers, scavengers in the corridors of power and apologists, professionals whose ethics evaporate the moment they come in contact with the paraphernalia of power. “But there is help coming. Help is on the way as the opposition moves to form a broad-based coalition that will send these characters out of power and put into gear the Nigerian project.” Another key figure in the new political dispensation and an ex-Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, also enjoined Nigerians to give the APC, an identity un...