Whats New?

The International Monetary Fund approves a bailout for Ukraine, to help the country’s beleaguered economy.
BBC News – Europe

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is arrested by Northern Ireland police in connection with the 1972 murder of widow and mother-of-10 Jean McConville.
BBC News – UK

Two people have died and two are injured after a former employee opened fire at a Vancouver-area lumber mill.
BBC News – US & Canada

Women in Nigeria march to demand that more be done to secure the release of 230 schoolgirls abducted by militants two weeks ago.
BBC News – Africa

UK economy grows 0.8% in first quarter of 2014, the fifth consecutive quarter of growth, according to the ONS.
BBC News – Business

At least 37 people are killed in explosions in the Syrian city of Homs, after at least 14 die in a mortar attack in Damascus, officials say.
BBC News – Middle East

Major Eliecer Otaiza, who served as the head of the Venezuelan intelligence service under President Hugo Chavez, has been killed, officials say.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

A large crowd of pro-Russian activists storms the regional administration’s headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
BBC News – Europe

A teacher stabbed to death in front of her pupils at a Leeds school is described by the head teacher as “inspirational”, as it emerges she was to retire this year.
BBC News – UK

Severe weather threatens as many as 73 million Americans, after two days of powerful storms and tornadoes killed up to 28 people.
BBC News – US & Canada

Some of the schoolgirls abducted by suspected militant Islamists in northern Nigeria are believed to have been taken to neighbouring states, a local leader tells the BBC.
BBC News – Africa

The economic outlook for the next three months is “exceptionally strong”, according to the employers’ organisation the CBI.
BBC News – Business

Syria still holds about 7.5% of its chemical weapons stocks at one site, an international envoy says, as a Sunday deadline to remove them passes.
BBC News – Middle East

Tens of thousands of people in Costa Rica, Mexico and several other Latin American countries celebrate the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

EU diplomats are to meet on Monday to agree which Russian officials should be targeted in further sanctions over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.
BBC News – Europe

Five UK service personnel who died in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan are named by the Ministry of Defence.
BBC News – UK

At least five people have been killed by tornadoes as a huge storm system sweeps across the central and southern United States.
BBC News – US & Canada

Peacekeepers escort a convoy of more than 1,200 Muslims out of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic.
BBC News – Africa