The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 35 on Friday, with rescue operations underway to find one person still missing, a local official told AFP.

Pope Francis spent a peaceful second night in hospital for treatment of bronchitis, a Vatican source said Friday, after doctors reported a "marked improvement" in the 86-year-old's condition.

Civil Society Organizations under the aegis of the Independent Technical Working Group (ITWG) on Social Inclusion have unveiled plans to engage with President-Elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the World Bank and the International Monetary Development Fund (IMF) spring meeting holding in April at Washington DC.

South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is expected to attend a parole hearing on Friday that could see him released from prison early, a decade after he killed his girlfriend.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, issued Certificates of Return, to the newly elected members of the Ondo State House of Assembly.