Centuries-old bells were stolen from church spires in three sleepy villages in Provence, a region in southeastern France, in July and the early part of this month, leaving the police scratching their ...

The bronze bell, heavy as a minivan and wider than a fridge, groaned to life and rang out across the flat roofs of Montreal. It was 10:17 a.m. – no mass, wedding or funeral to announce. Just a test.

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...

Sous cloche literally means “under the bell” (cloche means bell). But this expression has nothing to do with church bells, if that's what you're imagining. It actually refers to the cloche used in ...