Senior leaders at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Downing Street office were to blame for a culture that led to illegal parties being held there during coronavirus lockdowns, a report by a senior civil servant says.
Americans have been urged to stand up to the gun lobby, as a visibly shaken Joe Biden addressed the nation after a gunman killed 21 at a Texas primary school.
China says the US, UK and other foreign powers are seeking to sabotage its foreign relations by orchestrating criticism surrounding a trip by the top United Nations official for human rights.
A mass shooting at a primary school in the US state of Texas has left at least 18 children and three adults dead, with the teenage suspect also losing his life.
A Ukrainian court has sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's February 24 invasion.
Ukraine says it has held off the latest assault on an eastern city that has become the main target of Moscow's offensive since Russian forces finally seized Mariupol last week.
The World Health Organization expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says his army has inflicted serious damage on Russian forces despite the fall of the key port city of Mariupol.
Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule has docked for the first time with the International Space Station, completing a major objective in a high stakes do-over test flight into orbit without astronauts aboard.
A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a black neighbourhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities say.
Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Russian-held town of Izium in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said, in what could prove a serious setback for Moscow's plans to capture the entire Donbas region.
An 18-year-old gunman has fatally shot 10 people and wounded three others at a grocery store in a black neighbourhood of Buffalo, New York, before surrendering.
The Group of Seven leading economies has warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries, and urgent measures are needed to unblock grain supplies being held up by Russia.
The owners of a company that manufactures security cameras have been arrested after a massive fire in a four-storey commercial building in the Indian capital, that's killed 27 people and injured 12 others.
Ukraine has begun the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days of the war — the first of dozens of war crimes cases that the country's top prosecutor is pursuing.
North Korea has reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population.
Swedish membership of NATO would boost national security and help to stabilise the Nordic and Baltic regions, Foreign Minister Ann Linde says, a day after neighbour Finland said it would seek to join the US-led alliance without delay.
The United Arab Emirates' long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nayhan, has died, the government's state-run news agency has announced in a brief statement. He was 73.
Queen Elizabeth has attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show to watch her animals take to the parade ring, the first time she's been seen in public since March.
Elon Musk has put his $US44-billion ($A64 billion) deal for Twitter Inc temporarily on hold, citing pending details in support of the calculation that spam and fake accounts indeed represent less than 5 per cent of users.
Finland says it will apply to join NATO "without delay", with Sweden expected to follow suit, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine brings about the very expansion of the Western military alliance that Vladimir Putin aimed to prevent.
North Korea has confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak, calling it the country's "biggest emergency incident", with leader Kim Jong-un ordering a lockdown.
Britain's heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prince William have taken centre stage at the opening of parliament, replacing the 96-year-old Queen who missed the grand set-piece event for the first time in almost six decades.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to reset his government with plans aimed at winning back traditional supporters in southern England who abandoned his party at recent local elections.
