World News
- Trump's rift with Pope is playing out in public - it's costing him valuable supportLeading conservative Catholics tell the BBC why they back the American pontiff in his spat with Trump.
- Trump threatens to fire Fed chair Powell if he doesn't leave in MayDonald Trump's threat marks the latest escalation in his ongoing spat with Jerome Powell.
- Nine killed in second Turkish school shooting in two daysEight students and one teacher died in the attack, according to Interior Minister Mustafa Cifci.
- Prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti assaulted three times in a month, family saysThe Israeli Prison Service says the allegation that Barghouti was subjected to physical violence by prison guards are "false and baseless".
- Israeli triple-tap strike kills three paramedics in Lebanon, officials sayLebanon's government condemns as a "flagrant crime" the killing of the paramedics, one of whom featured in a BBC report.
- Chinese national given one year in prison for smuggling ants out of KenyaZhang Kequn was arrested in March while trying to travel to China with more than 2,000 live ants.








