The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the release of all hostages after the United States abstained from the vote.

Pope Francis at the last minute skipped reading his homily during a Palm Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square.

China’s defence ministry warned the Philippines against “provocative” actions and said China would safeguard its territorial sovereignty, a day after an incident in disputed waters of the South China Sea.

The Indian navy handed over 35 Somali pirates to the police in Mumbai.

Russia said it had arrested all four gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting massacre in a concert hall near Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin pledged to track down and punish those behind the attack.

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, was praised on Saturday for her “extraordinary dignity”, as the shock announcement of her cancer diagnosis triggered an outpouring of support from well wishers.

The United Nations Security Council turned down a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Israel-Hamas hostage deal.

Ukraine has scrapped its “sponsors of war” blacklist, the centrepiece of its campaign to pressure companies doing business in Russia, the agency in charge said after a backlash from countries from Austria to China.

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, said she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy.

At least 40 people were killed and 145 wounded when camouflage-clad gunmen fired with automatic weapons on concertgoers near Moscow in one of the deadliest attacks on Russia in decades.

Israel’s spy chief was due to travel to Qatar for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the U.N. Security Council, intensifying pressure on its ally.

Attacks flared in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince as political groups appeared to get nearer to finalizing a transition council set to take over from an absent government.