The lawyer for Dennis Hopper admits for the first time that the actor is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy treatment for his prostate cancer.
Independent News & Media Independent News & Media sells its British titles to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev for £1.
Munster Rugby Munster Rugby fans in Ireland win a court case against the state allowing pubs to open for business on Good Friday, a day that normally sees all pubs in the country shut for religious reasons.
U.S. Defense Secretary U.S. defense secretary Robert Gates announces new rules that make it more difficult to expel gay service members.
Tennessee 3 die in a medical helicopter crash in Tennessee, United States, with the helicopter that crashed being operated by Hospital Wing.
U.S. President President of the United States Barack Obama requests that Cuba's leaders release all political prisoners, describing human rights there as "deeply disturbing".
Hamas Hamas decides to execute Palestinians whom they have found guilty of “collaboration” with Israel despite protests by human rights and legal organizations, while criticizing those who have been firing rockets at Israel in the past few days.
Child sex abuse An editorial from the Vatican says the news media is acting "with the clear and ignoble intent of trying to strike Benedict and his closest collaborators at any cost".
Bishop of Waterford and Lismore William Lee apologises for his two-year delay in failing to alert authorities to child sexual abuse allegations in his parish in the mid-1990s, describing as "seriously inadequate" his handling of the matter.
United States The United States weakens proposed sanctions against Iran in a bid to win broader support on the UN Security Council as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses the impact of any new measures to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
Gaza A Gazan fisherman is critically wounded when the Israeli navy targets his fishing boat in an early morning attack.
Pakistan Pakistan's jet fighters pounds militants' hideouts in northwest Pakistan's Mamozai area, killing at least 48 people and injuring 32 others.
Colombia A car bomb killed at least 6 people and wounded more than 40 others in a Colombia's Buenaventura city notorious for cocaine trafficking.