Takeaway worker Zhi Min Chen pleads guilty over killing of 21-year-old found dead in her flat

A man has admitted murdering a young woman in Glasgow 22 years ago, bringing to a conclusion one of the 1990s’ most publicised unsolved cases.

The discovery of Tracey Wylde’s body at her flat in Barmulloch, north-east Glasgow, in November 1997 fuelled fears that a serial killer was targeting sex workers in the city.

Abdul Mohamed believed to have attended university in England then Australia

One of the attackers who carried out the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, and was said by Sri Lanka’s defence minister to have studied in the UK and Australia, has been identified as Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed.

British counter-terrorism investigators said they believed Mohamed attended a university in south-east England from 2006-07 and were searching for any associates or signs of extremist activity during his time in the UK.

Clerics and relatives hope politicians present will convert shock into moment of change for Northern Ireland

Mourners at the funeral of Lyra McKee have implored politicians to turn the journalist’s murder into a turning point for Northern Ireland.

Clerics, friends and relatives of McKee issued blunt, impassioned appeals to Theresa May and other party leaders who attended the service in Belfast’s St Anne’s Cathedral on Wednesday, urging them to convert the shock at her killing into a transformative moment.

Ramesh Raju prevented further bloodshed at Zion church at the cost of his own life

Ramesh Raju was standing with his family near the entrance to Zion church in Batticaloa on Sri Lanka’s east coast, waiting for the Easter service to start, when he spotted the man who had come to attack their community.

Wearing casual clothes, walking alone and carrying a large backpack, the man stuck out from a crowd dressed in their Sunday best for one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar, and gathered in excited groups of family and friends.

Cross-party group asks Home Office to act as family of four face paying almost £10,000

MPs have demanded that the Home Office abolish visa fees for Commonwealth soldiers who have served in the British armed forces, who can end up paying almost £10,000 in fees for a family of four to settle in the UK.

A cross-party group of more than 130 MPs, coordinated by the Conservative Richard Graham and Labour’s Madeleine Moon, have written to the home secretary, Sajid Javid, calling for the fees to be scrapped.

An Irish bog consumes two men seeking revenge and redemption, in Ryan and Andy Tohill’s tense thriller

Twins Ryan and Andy Tohill’s distinctive homecoming parable, further proof of Irish cinema’s resurgent boldness and versatility, finds a striking visual metaphor for the emotional labours required to find peace of mind nowadays. In the prologue’s teachable example of show-don’t-tell film-making, rough-hewn, edgy Ronan (Moe Dunford) returns to the boarded-up farmhouse he once called home with an apparent eye to starting afresh. An obstacle to the quiet life soon emerges, in the form of a crumpled older man, Sean (Lorcan Cranitch), observed digging up the adjoining peat bog. Why his quest agitates the prodigal farmhand is but gradually revealed; yet with admirable economy the Tohills and screenwriter Stuart Drennan establish a stand-off between men in small, dark holes who have sublimated all feeling into obsessive, possibly futile activity.

Certain shots framing these worker ants against the horizon reminded this viewer of Philip Haas’s underseen film of Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance, which set two disparate drifters to assembling a stone wall on an eccentric recluse’s estate. Yet the Tohills’ antagonists aren’t building but excavating, dragging themselves towards early or shallow graves; the idea of a long-buried past resurfacing in the Irish present carries a renewed resonance. Below the film’s mournful top layer, there lurks a simmering, suppressed violence. We fear relations between this pair will only deteriorate if either party finds what they’re looking for; and while Sean’s daughter Roberta initially holds out some prospect of escaping these ruts, tending Ronan’s calluses and keeping a lid on his rage, Emily Taaffe’s portrayal gives even this prospective peacemaker her own flinty secrets.

Foreign minister says US should ‘prepare for consequences’ if it tries to stop Iranian oil sales

The Iranian foreign minister, Javed Zarif, said Tehran would continue to defy US sanctions by finding buyers for its oil and warned that Washington should “be prepared for the consequences” if it tried to stop it.

The US announced the sanctions in November but some countries got temporary waivers that allowed them to import Iranian oil. Washington now says those waivers – which mainly affect China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey – will expire on 2 May.

Artefacts including statues and masks were also in tomb dating from Greco-Roman period

A team of archaeologists led by an Italian professor have discovered the mummified remains of dozens of ancient Egyptians in a tomb in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan.

The tomb dates back to the Greco-Roman period, between 332BC and AD395, and contains the remains of 35 men, women and children. Archaeologists discovered a small room with four mummies before finding 31 others in a room with items used in the funerary trade, including vases containing bitumen, and an intact stretcher made from palm wood and linen.

Rodrigo Duterte ramps up the rhetoric in row over containers languishing in Philippine ports

The Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, has said he is ready to “declare war” against Canada over scores of containers holding Canadian household rubbish and electronic waste that have been sitting in his country’s ports for more than six years.

More than 100 containers of waste were shipped in batches from Canada to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014. Most of the containers remain in local ports, sparking protests from environmental activists. Philippine officials say they were falsely declared by a private firm as recyclable plastic scraps and have asked Canada to take the rubbish back.