Who will be the next pope? Leading candidate could be first Asian pontiff

With the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the world’s attention now turns to who will replace him. Follow the Pope’s funeral live Predicting who will be chosen as the next leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics is notoriously fraught with difficulties. In theory, any baptised Catholic male could be made Pope. In practice, however, the n...