Chile's government has extended an emergency order to another region, as a scorching summer heat wave complicates efforts to control wildfires that have claimed at least 23 lives so far.
China is protesting the US downing of a Chinese balloon, saying the action violates international norms and it reserves the right to take further action in response.
New Zealand's government has announced additional funding to help rebuild flood-ravaged Auckland and other areas in the upper north island as residents of the country's second-largest city begin cleaning up.
Poland believes it will be possible to build a coalition of some 40 countries - including Australia - over the next week that would support the call to block Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics.
Police investigating a suicide bombing that killed more than 100 people at a Pakistan mosque say that several people have been arrested, and they can't rule out the possibility that the bomber had internal assistance evading security checks.
Prosecutors are set to file manslaughter charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of a western in 2021.
Dozens of police officers are thought to have died in a powerful bombing that killed at least 59Â people at a crowded mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to receive further heavy rain in the coming days, authorities in New Zealand's largest city say, as insurers count the costs of what looks likely to be the country's most expensive weather event ever.
New Zealand's deadly flood crisis continues after heavy rainfall hit the country's north island, causing landslides, flash floods and knocking out roads.
Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman, in the deadliest single incident in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Palestinian officials say.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has thus far failed to track down the source of contaminated cough syrups sold in at least seven low-income countries, a spokeswoman says in Geneva.
Jacinda Ardern has told Kiwis they would still see her around but not in public debates as the New Zealand leader prepares to give up the prime ministership.
Germany won't stand in the way if Poland wants to send its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Berlin's foreign minister says, in a possible breakthrough for Kyiv, which wants the tanks for its fight against Russia's invasion.
Islamist fighters set off a bomb then stormed a government building in Somalia's capital, killing at least five civilians, the ministry of information said.
Police in California have surrounded and searched a van believed to be connected to a mass shooting at a Chinese New Year celebration that left 10 people dead.
More classified documents from US President Joe Biden's time in the Senate and the vice presidency have been found after an FBI search of his home in Delaware.
The coronation of King Charles III in May will be celebrated with traditional processions, a concert at Windsor Castle, street parties, light shows and community volunteering, Buckingham Palace has announced.
Eighteen people including Ukraine's interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children have been killed when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv, Ukrainian officials say.
A French nun who was believed to be the world's oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France says.
