Liz Truss has resigned after the shortest, most chaotic tenure of any British prime minister, forced out after her economic program shattered the country's reputation for financial stability and left many people poorer.
King Charles III will be crowned at London's Westminster Abbey next May in a ceremony set to follow the traditional pageantry used for anointing monarchs over the last 1000 years, Buckingham Palace says.
Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals Mame and Gypsy and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96.
Russia has rained cruise missiles on busy Ukrainian cities in what the United States called "horrific strikes," killing civilians and knocking out power and heat with its most widespread air attacks since the start of the war.
Russia has struck cities across Ukraine during rush hour, killing civilians and destroying infrastructure in apparent revenge after President Vladimir Putin declared an explosion on the bridge to Crimea to be a terrorist attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of orchestrating the powerful blast that damaged a bridge linking Russia and Crimea, describing the explosion as an "act of terrorism".
Russian divers will examine the damage caused by a powerful blast on Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea that hit a prestigious symbol of Moscow's annexation of the peninsula and a key supply route to forces battling in southern Ukraine.
The latest defeat for Moscow has been marked by the bodies of Russian soldiers lying in the streets of a key eastern Ukrainian city following their comrades' retreat.
Ukrainian forces have achieved their biggest breakthrough in the country's south since the war began, bursting through Russian defences and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River, threatening supply lines for thousands of Russian troops.
Indonesia has set up an independent team to investigate a crowd crush at a soccer stadium that killed 125 people, including 32 children, as the country's human rights commission questioned the police use of tear gas.
Gaining the right to host next year's Under-20 World Cup was a major milestone in Indonesia's soccer development, raising hopes a successful tournament would turn around problems that had long blighted the sport in this country of 277 million people.
With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, US officials have vowed to unleash an unprecedented amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people still trapped by floodwaters.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has taken an early lead in the initial tally of the country's presidential election, ahead of challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose Workers Party draws more support from regions that are slower to report.
Ukraine has claimed full control of the eastern logistics hub of Lyman, its most significant battlefield gain from Russia in weeks, providing a potential staging post for further attacks to the east while heaping further pressure on the Kremlin.
Australia will impose further financial sanctions and travel bans on almost 30Â Russia-backed separatists and senior officials following Moscow's move to annex swathes of Ukrainian territory.
Ukrainian troops are moving to capture the Russian-held eastern town of Lyman, threatening a new setback for Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's campaign in the Donbas as he prepares to declare the region part of Russia.
The United Nations Security Council will convene at the request of Russia to discuss damage to two pipelines as the European Union promised a "robust" response to any intentional disruption of its energy infrastructure.
Shelling has hit southern Ukraine, while Russia sought to defend its seven-month war even as it moves to escalate the conflict with the expected annexation of regions in the east and south that its forces have seized.
Philippines authorities have put the country on high alert, evacuating people in coastal areas and suspending maritime travel as the country braces for the arrival of Super Typhoon Noru.
After powerful storm Fiona left a trail of destruction in Canada's east coast, the focus shifted to massive clean-up efforts, damage assessment and restoration of power and telecom services as officials warned of a long road to recovery.
Protests that have shaken Iran for eight days since the death of Mahsa Amini in custody are now linked to 35 deaths, Iranian state television has reported.
Russia has launched referendums in four occupied areas of Ukraine expected to be used by Moscow to justify annexation, but Kyiv says the voting is mandatory with residents threatened with punishment if they don't take part.
