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Donald Trump has become the US Republican presidential nominee in all but name after victory in Indiana forced rival Ted Cruz from the race.Mr Trump, unpopular with many in his own party, now has a clear path to the 1,237 delegates needed to claim his party’s crown. That would mark a stunning victory for a businessman few took seriously when he launched his campaign last year. Bernie Sanders has defeated Hillary Clinton in Indiana’s Democratic race. He trails Mrs Clinton in the all-important delegate count but after this victory he said the contest was still alive.

The government is coming under increasing pressure to accept 3,000 child refugees from the Syrian war who have made it into Europe unaccompanied.A group of former Jewish refugees who came to the UK in the “Kindertransport” rescue efforts of the 1930s have urged the PM to “demonstrate compassion”. Ministers argue that offering sanctuary to lone children could result in more falling into the hands of traffickers. MPs will vote on the issue next week, with ministers facing possible defeat. The government has said it will accept up to 3,000 refugees, mostly vulnerable children, from the Middle East and North Africa…

Sainsbury’s has reported a fall in annual profits as the supermarket price war continued to hurt the retailer.Underlying profits, which strip out one-off charges, fell to £587m for the year to 12 March. That was down from £681m in the previous year. Pre-tax profits for the year were £548m, reversing last year’s £72m loss. That result was hit by charges related to the falling value of its properties. In April, Sainsbury’s agreed to buy Argos-owner Home Retail Group. Sainsbury’s has been suffering from the battle among supermarkets to cut prices and said that tough environment was unlikely to change anytime…

Leaving the EU would mean “difficult and lengthy negotiations” that could take years to complete, peers say.The Lords EU Committee said determining the rights of two million UK nationals living in the EU would be a “complex and daunting” part of exit talks. While they do not recommend a vote either way, peers say trade deals between the EU and non-EU states take between four and nine years on average. Leave campaigners argue a UK-EU Treaty should be wrapped up in two years.

Do you know that you can be joyful all the time? You may ask, how is that possible? Well, joy has nothing to do with what’s  happening to you or around you; it’s got nothing to do with what others say or do to you. Joy comes from within you, and it’s up to you to let it out. Living with joy is a personal choice you make regardless of any situation or circumstances. It doesn’t matter how you feel; you can choose to stir up that joy right now. Ephesians 5: 19 says, ” Speaking to yourselves in psalms…

Leicester City supporters erupted into cheers of jubilation when their team’s Premier League title dream became reality on Mondays their only remaining challengers Tottenham Hotspur drew 2-2 at Chelsea, handing the underdogs the trophy in one of the greatest sporting achievements of modern times.The result provoked an outpouring of celebration in the provincial English city, as the city’s biggest party began in earnest. Unfashionable Leicester, 5000-1 outsiders at the start of the season, are English champions for the first time and become the first team to win a maiden English title since Nottingham Forest in 1977-78, having left the likes…

A solar-powered airplane midway through an attempt to circle the globe finished the 10th leg of its history-making journey on Monday (May2), in Arizona after a 16-hour flight from northern California. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft dubbed Solar Impulse 2 arrived in Phoenix shortly before 0900 p.m. (0400 gmt). The lengthy duration of Monday’s flight, which an airliner would make in just two hours, stems from a cruising speed more akin to that of a car, requiring pilots to practice meditation and hypnosis in training to stay alert for long hours. Occupying the plane’s tiny cockpit for the trip was…

Doctors treated a one-year-old girl who was pulled out alive from the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital on Tuesday (May 3), over 72 hours after it collapse. Red Cross spokeswoman Arnolda Shiundu told Reuters that the girl was rescued at about 4 a.m. and was receiving medical attention at Kenyatta National Hospital. Officials have put the death toll so far at 21. Aid workers had said on Monday that the chances of finding more survivors were unlikely after the building fell down on Friday (April 29) night.

Banking giant HSBC has reported a 14% drop in profits for the first quarter following “extreme levels of volatility” in financial markets at the start of the year. Profit before tax came in at $6.1bn (£4.17bn) for the three months to March, down from $7.1bn a year ago. However, analysts had expected a far steeper fall in profits. HSBC chief executive Stuart Gulliver said the bank had been “resilient in tough market conditions”. Adjusted pre-tax profits, including currency effects and one-off items, fell 18% to $5.4bn (£3.7bn).

Fewer than one in five eligible voters in some parts of England previously chose anyone to represent them in local elections, raising fears of a democratic deficit.BBC News analysis of voting patterns in 2,500 council wards since 2012 shows wide disparities. Most of the areas where the fewest people voted in recent elections are in the North. The Electoral Reform Society said it was vital people turned out to vote. Campaigners are concerned there will be a low turnout again on Thursday 5 May if voters continue to see local authority elections as “less important” than a General Election.