Members of the crew that discovered the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship say the vessel is in remarkably good condition after 107 years at the bottom of the sea.
A Russian air strike has badly damaged a children's hospital in the besieged Ukranian port city of Mariupol, burying patients under rubble and injuring women in labour, Ukraine says.
Officials have vowed to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack in Pakistan claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. The assault killed at least 63 people and wounded nearly 200.
Russia has declared a partial ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, the Kremlin's defence ministry says.
Security researchers with US cybersecurity firm Symantec say they have discovered a "highly sophisticated" Chinese hacking tool that has been able to escape public attention for more than a decade.
Russian invasion forces claim to have seized two small cities in southeastern Ukraine and the area around a nuclear power plant, but ran into stiff resistance elsewhere as Moscow's diplomatic and economic isolation deepened.
Western allies have announced sweeping new sanctions against Moscow as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were repelling Russian troops advancing on Kyiv.
Donald Trump has expressed empathy for Ukrainians and lauded Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in an about-face following his praise of Vladimir Putin.
Allies from the US, Canada and Europe have announced sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin as anger grows over his country's invasion of Ukraine.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told senior European officials that China respects countries' sovereignty, including Ukraine's, but that Russia's concerns about NATO's eastward expansion should be properly addressed.
Russia has ignored global condemnation to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unleashing air strikes on cities and military bases in an attack that could rewrite the post-Cold War security order.
Coronavirus restrictions are set to end in Iceland as curbs wind down in Poland, Slovakia and Italy while authorities in Hong Kong plan compulsory testing for everyone in the territory.
Some people getting Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines should consider waiting up to eight weeks between the first and second doses, instead of the three or four weeks previously recommended, US health officials say.
Ukraine has declared a state of emergency and told its citizens in Russia to flee while Russia began evacuating its Kyiv embassy in the latest ominous signs for Ukrainians who fear an all-out Russian military onslaught.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists emergency powers are still needed despite police stamping out protests by truckers angry about COVID-19 curbs.
Boris Johnson has said his "living with COVID" plan will bring the UK "towards a return to normality" as he intends to scrap the requirement to self-isolate.
A passenger listed as missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy has been found alive by rescuers, a Greek shipping ministry official says.
