The head of Israel&s domestic intelligence service said yesterday that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu&s bid to sack him followed his refusal to fulfil requests that included spying on Israeli protesters and disrupting the leader&s corruption trial.

Pope Francis excommunicated the mafia as he clamped down on organised crime groups in Italy from associating themselves with the Catholic church.

The gunman who killed 23 people when he targeted Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart store in Texas in 2019 has pleaded guilty to capital murder and was scolded by a judge over the racist attack in El Paso near the US-Mexico border.

Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church will begin a process virtually unchanged in 800 years to select its new leader.