Reuters

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  North Korea says ready to strike U.S. aircraft carrier

  North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific.

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  Pope describes some migrant holding centres as 'concentration camps'

  Pope Francis urged governments on Saturday to get migrants and refugees out of holding centres, saying many had become "concentration camps".

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  They call themselves 'nuns' but they're nothing to do with the Church - they're harvesting cannabis...

  The sisterhood stresses that its seven members, despite the moniker, do not belong to any order of the Catholic Church.

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  Peaceful outcome for Korean peninsula still possible - Pence

  Denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula can still be achieved peacefully because of Washington's new engagement with China, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, despite growing fears North Korea could soon conduct a new nuclear test.

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  Security dominates French election after shooting

  The killing of a policeman by a suspected Islamist militant pushed national security to the top of the French political agenda on Friday, two days before the presidential election.

• United States will honour refugee deal with Australia

  U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honour a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers, a deal President Donald Trump had described as "dumb".

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  Aaron Hernandez Wrote Bible Verse John 3:16 on Forehead Before Suicide

  Hernandez reportedly wrote Bible verse John 3:16 on his forehead. A Bible was also reported to have been found in his cell.

• What is the key religious liberty case on Neil Gorsuch's desk this week?

  Trinity Lutheran Church, which is located in Columbia, Missouri and runs a preschool and daycare centre, said Missouri unlawfully excluded it from a grant programme providing state funds to nonprofit groups

• Iraq's Christians celebrate Easter, dream of returning home

  Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by Islamic State north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time since 2014.

• Prince Harry sought counselling more than a decade after mother's death

  Prince Harry sought counselling in his late twenties to help deal with the grief of losing his mother more than a decade earlier, he told the Telegraph newspaper.

• Turkey's President Erdogan declares referendum victory, opponents cry foul

  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in a referendum on Sunday to grant him sweeping powers in the biggest overhaul of modern Turkish politics, but opponents said the vote was marred by irregularities and they would challenge its result.

• US won't tolerate more North Korea nuclear tests, says VP Pence

  Pence and South Korean acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn also said they would strengthen anti-North Korea defences by moving ahead with the early deployment of the THAAD missile defence system.