Queen Elizabeth will not carry out the opening of parliament as the 96-year-old monarch has had a recurrence of mobility issues, Buckingham Palace says, the latest event she will not attend because of her health.
Sri Lanka's prime minister has resigned to make way for a unity government that will try to find a way out of the country's worst ever economic crisis but protesters say they also want his brother to stand down as president.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered to resign amid the island nation's worst economic crisis since independence that has led to widespread protests, a government official says.
Sweden's ruling Social Democrats will decide on May 15 whether to overturn decades of opposition to NATO membership, the party says, a move that would almost certainly lead to Sweden asking to join the 30-nation alliance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his armed forces they are fighting for their country at a parade of Russian firepower in Moscow while his troops stepped up their 10-week-old assault on Ukraine.
Officials in the Philippines have reported the deaths in a shooting incident of three guards protecting a polling station in the country's national election.
Israeli police say forces have captured two Palestinians who killed three people in a stabbing attack last week and fled the scene, sparking a massive manhunt and keeping the country on edge.
As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor says.
Millions of Beijing residents have queued up for another round of COVID-19 tests as China's capital seeks to trace and isolate every infection to contain a small but stubborn outbreak - and avoid a Shanghai-style prolonged lockdown.
Crews have worked through a second night searching for victims of a hotel explosion that killed at least 27 people in Cuba's capital and left more than a dozen missing amid the rubble.
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korea's military says, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line against the North.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says diplomatic efforts are under way to save the remaining fighters holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol, as more civilians were evacuated from the bombed-out plant.
Dozens more civilians have been rescued from the tunnels under a besieged steel mill in Mariupol where Ukrainian fighters have been making their last stand to prevent Russia's complete takeover of the strategically important port city.
The Italian government has ordered the seizure of a luxury yacht worth some $700 million that has been linked in the media to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak has killed at least 18 people and injured dozens more when it blew away a luxury hotel's outer walls in Cuba's capital, Havana.
Six Indian citizens who tried to enter the United States illegally and did not know how to swim have been rescued from a sinking boat in northern New York, federal court documents state.
Protesters on both sides of the US abortion debate have faced off with chants, prayers and signs outside the Supreme Court, hours after the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn the court's landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
Israel has denounced Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for suggesting the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, saying his comments were anti-Semitic and dangerous.
A prominent US senator has pledged a vigorous review into the origins of the coronavirus if republicans retake the Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship.
Ukraine's shelling has killed and injured its own civilians in the southern region of Kherson, Russia says, after pounding southern and eastern areas with missile strikes, while some civilians evacuated from a steel plant in besieged Mariupol.
Singapore has executed an intellectually disabled Malaysian man condemned for a drug offence after a court dismissed a last-minute challenge from his mother and international pleas to spare him.
