The next vote will take place at about 17:30 (16:30 BST) - no smoke will signal no decision has been reached, white smoke that there is a new pope

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Wednesday for the conclave that will choose a successor to Pope Francis.

With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new leader of the Catholic Church

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.

Chicago-born Prevost is seen as a reformer and worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before being made an archbishop there World leaders have been congratulating Pope Leo XIV, with US President Donald Trump calling it a "great honour" to have an American pope A papal tapestry is unfurled and draped over the edge of the balcony as cardinals gather on the left and right sides of the balcony,

The bells of St. Peter's rang out, signalling that cardinals have elected a new pope to succeed Pope Francis and take charge of the Roman Catholic Church.