Cyprus is to relax its citizenship rules for foreign investors who lost at least 3m euros (£2.5m) under an EU bailout deal, the Cypriot president says.

French government ministers are due to reveal details of their personal wealth as part of efforts by President Hollande to regain public trust.

Adam Scott becomes the first Australian to win the US Masters, as he collects the first major of his career.

North Korea calls the South's offer of talks on the joint Kaesong industrial complex, as tensions remain high on the peninsula.

A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.

China's economy, the world's second-largest, performs worse than many analysts had expected in the first three months of the year.

Nicolas Maduro, chosen by the late Hugo Chavez as his successor as Venezuelan president, wins a narrow victory at the polls.

Officials say at least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in a series of early morning explosions across Iraq.