Pope Francis has shown the onset of double pneumonia, further complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff, the Vatican said last night.

Early yesterday morning, Volodymyr Zelensky laid a wreath by the tomb of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish state, in Ankara.

The Trump administration is giving America&s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president&s fight against &wokeness& and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply.

A top Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others tomorrow, a surprise increase that apparently comes in return for Israel allowing mobile homes and construction equipment into the devastated Gaza Strip.