内容摘要：Some of those present told the BBC a protest over immigration had turned ugly with a shop being attacked and rocks thrown.

Some of those present told the BBC a protest over immigration had turned ugly with a shop being attacked and rocks thrown.

Asked about the possibility of the US leaving the Fund, the IMF said yesterday it had a "long history" of "working with successive US administrations".Over 12 profoundly consequential years for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis steered it into uncharted territory and did so in ways that will resonate long into the future.

The pontiff worked to soften the face of the Catholic Church for many, loosened the Vatican's grip on power and intervened in some of the major social questions of our time.Within Catholicism, he certainly had his critics; some traditionalists in particular were often enraged by actions they felt were a radical departure from Church teaching.Despite him being a vocal pacifist and critic of actions by major nations that he perceived as harmful, there were also those who felt he should have been more progressive.

But from the moment he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis came with an informality and a smile that put the people he met at their ease. It was symbolic of a principle that guided his belief that the Church should reach people in their daily lives, wherever in the world they happened to be."At the beginning of my papacy I had the feeling that it would be brief: no more than three or four years, I thought," Pope Francis said in his autobiography Hope, released in January 2025, a book that gives us insight into the Pope's own reflections on his legacy.

One of his first acts as pope was to

, instead choosing to live in the same guesthouse in which he had stayed as a cardinal.An environmental charity has enlisted women's rugby players to help haul an abandoned van away from a beach in Cornwall.

Locals alerted Clean Ocean Sailing to the mangled Mercedes vehicle which had been left at the bottom of Polpeor Cove's slipway for more than eight weeks after being swamped.The charity used a 50-year-old VW campervan called Cecil to pull the wreck above the high tide line but said it was not powerful enough to tow the wreck away.

A date for the operation has yet to be set, but volunteer and former rugby player Kate Green said a friendship with the Cornish Pirates meant 30 "Cornish - all women - rugby players are on standby to give a hand to Cecil in his final effort".The charity, whose mission is to keep Cornwall's coasts pollution-free, said volunteers spent three days emptying the van which was "partially buried, filled with rocks, sand and rotten seaweed, it was too heavy and impossible to move".