Pope Francis will be discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Sunday and will need at least two months of rest at the Vatican, doctors treating him have said. The 88-year-old was admitted to the hospital on 14 February with a severe respiratory infection that resulted in double pneumonia. During the past five weeks, he presented … Read more
Three people were killed and 14 others injured in a mass shooting on Friday in the US state of New Mexico, according to local authorities. The shooting took place at a park in the city of Las Cruces, about 22:00 local time, the Las Cruces police posted on social media. They had not made any … Read more
Thirteen people – 10 of them police officers – have been injured after a car chase ended in a pile-up in the French capital, Paris. The accident – near Montparnasse train station – occurred after a driver refused orders to stop early on Saturday. Instead, the black car – with two other people on board … Read more
Columbia University has agreed to several demands from the Trump administration after $400m (£310m) in federal funding was pulled over accusations the university failed to fight antisemitism on campus. Columbia says face masks used for the purpose of concealing identity are no longer allowed, and anyone involved in a protest must, when asked, present university … Read more
PA Media Two men have been taken to hospital after reports of a shooting in the Republic of Ireland on Friday night. Their injuries have been described by gardaí (Irish police) as serious but not life-threatening. Officers were called to a disturbance at Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore, County Offaly at about 21:50 local time. … Read more
Hugo Bachega BBC Middle East correspondent Reuters IDF soldiers guard in the norther Israeli town of Metula, on the border with Lebanon. File photo Israel has warned it will “respond severely” after rockets were fired from Lebanon – the first since a bilateral ceasefire deal came into effect in November. Sirens were heard in the … Read more
A refinery in New Mexico that the federal government has accused of some of the worst air pollution in the country. A chemical plant in Louisiana being investigated for leaking gas from storage tanks. Idaho ranchers accused of polluting wetlands. Under President Biden, the Environmental Protection Agency took a tough approach on environmental enforcement by … Read more
US President Donald Trump has revoked security clearances from his previously defeated Democratic election rivals, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as a number of other top former officials. The move comes after Trump said in February he was revoking security clearance for his predecessor Joe Biden. He confirmed that move in the latest … Read more
When Donald Trump met President Zelensky in New York last September, the then US presidential candidate exuded confidence he could bring the war in Ukraine to an early end. “If we win, I think we’re going to get it resolved very quickly,” he said. How quickly he meant varied over time. In a TV debate … Read more
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Bettmann via Getty Images Foreman exchanging punches with Muhammad Ali in their famous Rumble in the Jungle fight George Foreman, the boxing heavyweight legend, has died aged 76, his family said. Known as Big George in the ring, the American competed for decades starting in the 1960s, winning gold at … Read more