Pope Francis prayed for peace in Syria and Ukraine in his traditional Easter Mass in St Peter's Square on Sunday.

Apparent hypocrisy ‘brings into question Blair’s judgement and his work’, watchdog claims

Promised funds remain unpaid as the head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warns of more suffering and security threats ahead

The Independent on Sunday has seen a draft of the latest IPCC report, which says the world is not doing enough to combat problem. But, with sufficient political will, all is not lost

LGBT campaigners called Mr Duncan's comments "inappropriate"

No.5 Serbia, September 1914: Any illusions about the romance of war rapidly evaporated when the  Austro-Hungarian army invaded Serbia. Overwhelming force was met with implacable resistance, spawning a vicious cycle of atrocities. Tony Paterson continues our series by focusing on a moment that stood for all too many more

No.4  Belgium, 21 August 1914: Our 100-day series marking the centenary of the First World War continues with a report by US journalist Richard Harding Davis on the German war machine’s unstoppable progress into neutral Belgium

Nato will strengthen its presence in Poland within weeks as the military alliance seeks to allay fears along Ukraine's western border over Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Disease spreads from Asia to Africa and may already have jumped to crucial plantations in Latin America

Hamid Abutalebi was once a member of the group which held 52 Americans for 444 days

His statement came before the Romanian President said the US plans to increase the number of troops stationed at the Mihail Kogalniceanu base

Japan hunts around a thousand whales in the Southern Ocean each year

Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has confirmed Norway's former premier Jens Stoltenberg will succeed him as new chief of the military alliance in October.

A report shows that the UK outperforms only Malta and Luxembourg

Obama is the ninth US president to make an official visit to the Vatican