A woman has been killed in an axe attack at the University of Warsaw in Poland, police said.

The university said she was a staff member and had come under attack in the main campus building on Wednesday evening. A university guard who came to her aid was seriously injured.

 

Germany's conservative leader has unexpectedly fallen short of the numbers needed to form a majority in parliament to become chancellor.

Friedrich Merz needed 316 votes in the 630-seat Bundestag but only secured 310, in a significant blow to the Christian Democrat leader, two and a half months after winning Germany's federal elections.

 

India's human rights body is investigating reports that more than 100 children fell ill from eating a school lunch after a dead snake was found in the food.

The cook reportedly still served the lunch despite removing the dead animal from it, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement.

The commission said about 500 children are believed to have been served the meal in the city of Mokama in Bihar state, eastern India.

 

A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a suspected assassination.

Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong'ondo Were's vehicle before one of them got off the motorbike and shot him at close range.

"The nature of this crime appears to be both targeted and predetermined," police spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga said in a statement.

 

Italian government has decreed three days of mourning the Pope who died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. 
 
The Vatican has confirmed that Saturday will be the funeral  for Pope Francis who has led the Catholic Church since March 2013. 
 
Pope Francis's body will lay in state from Wednesday in an open wooden coffin for people to pay their respect.

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