Pope celebrates Easter with big crowd in flower-adorned Vatican squa...

The 86-year-old pontiff, still recovering from bronchitis, missed the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum due to low temperatures.

Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rocket attack

Jewish worshippers gathered at the city’s Western Wall for Passover as Palestinians performed Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Woman pedestrian dies after being hit by car

The road has been closed pending a forensic investigation, and gardai are appealing for witnesses.

Police ‘seize high-end campervan in SNP finances probe’

A Niesmann + Bischoff motorhome was reportedly taken from a house in Fife.

Israeli military retaliates after rockets fired from Syria

The attack came after days of escalating violence over tension in Jerusalem and an Israeli police raid on the city’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Six missiles fired within hours toward Israel in rare attack from Sy...

The rocket firings come after days of escalating violence on multiple fronts over tension in Jerusalem.

What the papers say – April 9

There are a wide variety of stories making the front pages of British newspapers on Easter Sunday.

Royal family to be out and about for Easter Sunday service

The King and Queen Consort are expected to attend Easter Mattins at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Shorter procession and one-way trip in Gold State Coach for King’s c...

The monarch and Camilla have personally chosen to make their outward journey in the more comfortable Diamond Jubilee State Coach.

How UK scientists are contributing to European Space Agency’s Juice...

Researchers have led the development of one of the 10 instruments on the spacecraft.

Disabled people encouraged to check entitlement to benefits

The Scottish Government is launching a new advertisement campaign to increase take-up of recently devolved disability benefits.

Royal horses in crowd training for coronation day, King’s head coach...

Matthew Power is in charge of keeping the monarch and the Queen Consort safe inside the carriages.

King’s coronation route is far shorter than his mother’s in 1953

The return journey will cover 1.3 miles compared to the late Queen’s five-mile expedition around central London which took two hours to complete.

Gold State Coach ‘creaks like an old galleon but runs better than it...

The King and Queen Consort will travel to the coronation in the modern Diamond Jubilee State Coach and return in the historic Gold State Coach.

Coronation Twitter emoji revealed as Charles’s 17th century golden c...

The emoji will accompany coronation hashtags in celebration of the weekend of festivities in May.

Camilla to hold ivory sceptre during coronation ceremony

The King and Queen Consort will be crowned on May 6 at Westminster Abbey.

Cheryl Korbel joins push for offenders to be made to attend sentenci...

It comes as Thomas Cashman refused to appear in the dock when he was sentenced on Monday.

Douglas Ross suggests Tories could vote Labour in Scotland to oust S...

But a Tory spokesman in Westminster insisted ‘tactical voting was “emphatically not the view of the Conservative Party’.

Father of British-Israeli sisters killed in West Bank ‘confident’ of...

Rina and Maia Dee were shot dead in an attack on their car near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Friday.

Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazi war crimes, dies aged 10...

Mr Ferencz was one of the prosecutors during the Nuremberg trials.