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India has issued a strong diplomatic rebuke to Bangladesh following the kidnapping and killing of Bhabesh Chandra Roy, a prominent Hindu minority leader in northern Bangladesh.

Kilmar Abrego, a resident of Maryland, was deported by US immigration authorities on March 15, 2025, despite being in the country legally.

JK Rowling has sparked controversy by celebrating a UK Supreme Court ruling that defines women as those determined by "biological sex".

Over the past months, Israel has reportedly proposed to the Trump administration a series of options to attack Iran's facilities, including some with late spring and summer timelines.

Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among four people who died in incident on ThursdayThe UK Foreign Office has said it is supporting the family of a couple who were killed in a cable car crash in Naples.Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among four people who died on Thursday at Monte Faito in the town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples in southern Italy. Continue reading...

Seven officers taken to hospital after Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, crashed his BMW while being pursued by police on A1A man has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after seven police officers were injured when he crashed into them while being chased by police.Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, was taking a woman home from a date in the early hours of 9 April when he crashed his BMW while it was being pursued by police along the northbound carriageway of the A1, near junction 75 and the Denton Burn roundabout, near Newcastle. Continue reading...

Ukraine says five regions damaged overnight after wave of drone and missile attacks by RussiaAnalysis: Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon peace talksHere are some of the latest images on the newswires:Russian troops recaptured the village of Oleshnya in Russia’s western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, the RIA state news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Continue reading...

US Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Vatican on Saturday morning ahead of a meeting with the Holy See's second-highest official, just two months after Pope Francis lambasted the new US administration.Catholic convert Vance and his delegation arrived at the pope's official residence, the Apostolic Palace, just before 10:00 am (0800 GMT) and were due to hold a meeting with the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's secretary for relations with states.The meeting comes just a day after Vance held talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni where US President Donald Trump's trade tariffs were discussed.Vance is hoping also to meet with the head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, who is recuperating after battling life-threatening pneumonia and spending nearly 40 days in hospital.The 40-year-old US vice president, his wife and three children attended a Good Friday liturgy at Saint Peter's basilica following his meeting with Meloni.There has been no official confirmation whether Vance, who converted to Catholicism in his mid-30s, will attend Easter mass on Sunday, where the pope is expected to make an appearance to the thousands of faithful who will descend on the Vatican for the occasion.Any meeting between Vance and the pope could be a tense affair.In February, Francis incurred the wrath of the White House after writing a letter to US bishops in which he condemned Trump's plan to deport migrants en masse, which he described as a "major crisis".The US responded by telling Francis to "stick to" religion.Last year, Francis made a rare foray into the US election season to call harsh anti-migrant attitudes "madness" and criticise right-wing US Catholic figures for overly conservative stances.Vance has a close relationship with the most conservative fringe of American churches, which have criticised the pope over his stances on migration, LGBTQ rights and certain questions of social justice.