Pope attracts world-record crowd in wet Philippines

Six million people turned out to see the pope at Rizal Park and along motorcade routes, surpassing the world record for a papal gathering of five million. People cheer as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis at Rizal Park in Manila. -AP Manila - Pope Francis drew a record six million people as he celebrated mass in the rain-swept Philippine capital on Sunday, a triumphant finale to an Asian tour in which he championed the plight of the poor. Filipinos are famous for practising a passionate brand of Catholicism and they turned out in a celebratory mood that defied the gloomy skies, determined to see the charismatic 78-year-old pontiff. Francis made an exhilarating entrance to a...