SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon denies a newspaper's claim she told a French diplomat she would prefer David Cameron to Ed Miliband as prime minister.

A majority of people in Britain support tax rises as a way of funding the NHS ahead of cuts to other public services, a poll suggests.

Shia Houthi rebels are pushed back in the Yemeni city of Aden while another port city, Mukalla, falls to al-Qaeda militants.

Ed Miliband is to unveil a Labour plan to encourage banks to fund 125,000 new homes for first time-buyers in England.

Kenya mourns the almost 150 victims of Thursday's al-Shabab attack on the university campus of Garissa amid questions why warnings were ignored.

A blast at a house in the Malian capital Bamako kills one and injures two others, with suspicions that it may have been a bomb.

Pope Francis condemns what he calls the "complicit silence" about the killing of Christians, at a Good Friday service in Rome.

An Alabama man is freed after spending nearly three decades on death row, following new tests on bullets that did not link him to the crime scene.