KUALA LUMPUR: Timor Leste did not have a football pitch and had to train at the beach. And as a result, the Crocodiles lost their bite and were hammered 0-11 by Thailand in the first Group A ...

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

atholic-majority Timor Leste will observe a week of mourning to honour Pope Francis after his death on Monday aged 88, President Jose Ramos-Horta said, hailing the pontiff's "very brave" fight for ...

When Pope Francis visited Timor-Leste last year, he was the first pontiff to do so. Half the population of the tiny, predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia turned out to hear him speak.

Leaders from Indonesia and Timor-Leste also offered condolences. The Pope visited this region last year. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto expressed his sorrow. He remembered Pope Francis as a ...

In the tiny island nation of Timor-Leste, which has the highest proportion of Catholics outside the Vatican, the Pope wasn't just revered as the head of the church but as a "king". Francis was the ...

Visiting several countries across the continents of the world requires a lot of planning, and one of such is the acquisition ...

including East Timor (Timor-Leste), Singapore, Mongolia, and New Guinea. Francis was the first pope to journey to a war zone, to grant dozens of one-on-one interviews with journalists, pose for ...

April 21 (Reuters) - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Monday the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, was a tremendous loss for the ...

East Timor President Says Death of Pope Francis a 'Tremendous Loss' for the World (Reuters) - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Monday the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin ...

DILI - Catholic majority East Timor on Tuesday began seven days of national mourning to mark the death of Pope Francis, with people gathering for prayers and flags flying at half-mast across the ...