Monsoon rains over the past month have killed at least 150 people as downpours continue to lash Pakistan, triggering flash floods in some parts of the country, government officials say.
A Melbourne aged care home where 45 people died from COVID-19 has been charged by the workplace safety watchdog, while some family members believe its managers should be jailed.
The suspected driver of a truck packed with dozens of migrants who died in sweltering heat during a smuggling attempt in Texas and an accused conspirator have been charged with human-trafficking offences.
A 70-year-old man has shot and killed three elderly people with a handgun during a dinner at an Alabama church where he occasionally attended services, police say.
A massive fire has killed at least 38 people and injured more than 100 others at a container depot near a port city in Bangladesh, officials and local media report as firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control.
COVID-19 deaths are again on the rise with Australia recording 88 fatalities of patients with the condition over the weekend and 363 in the past seven days.
More than 100 people are missing or confirmed dead in Brazil after mudslides and major floods brought about by heavy rains tore through several urban neighbourhoods in the northeastern part of the country.
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 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.
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.
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.
Inquiries have begun into what caused the disappearance of a Japanese tour boat off the nation's northern coast, while the coast guard confirmed the death of a child found late on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 11.
