England captain Steven Gerrard says the side will be ready for the hostility of Montenegro after victory over San Marino.

Plans to tackle tuberculosis are failing and a new visionary approach is needed, according to an international group of doctors and scientists.

Police experts on environments contaminated with chemical, biological and nuclear material are searching the house of dead tycoon Boris Berezovsky.

Pope Francis is to begin the Catholic Church's most important liturgical season with a Palm Sunday Mass attended by thousands of pilgrims in St Peter's Square.

Islamist rebels attack Gao in northern Mali, officials say, and are only repelled after a firefight lasting several hours.

Immigrant families will be kept off council house waiting lists for up to five years, under plans expected to be announced by the prime minister.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf arrives back in Pakistan, ending his self-imposed four-year exile and defying death threats.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Iraq for an unannounced visit to press for greater co-operation over the conflict in Syria.