China has staged mock missile strikes and dispatched fighter jets carrying live missiles as part of exercises Beijing says are to punish Taiwan's new president.
Four people have died and at least 35 are hurt after a tornado slashed through a small Iowa farming town, reducing homes and other buildings to heaps of twisted rubble.
French President Emmanuel Macron says security forces will remain in riot-hit New Caledonia as long as necessary, but the state of emergency shouldn't be prolonged.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a national election for July 4, saying Britons will be able to choose their future in a vote his Conservatives are widely expected to lose.
Taiwan says it's confident it can protect the island, after China started two days of "punishment" drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
Three New Zealanders injured on the Singapore Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence are in hospital in Bangkok, one of them in intensive care.
Queensland's police minister has slammed unknown culprits making threats to a local MP and her staff in a regional town, saying they lack decency and respect.
A French-operated flight will bring stranded New Zealanders to Brisbane, with a New Zealand Defence Force flight arranged for the travel from Brisbane to New Zealand.
Donald Trump deleted a video posted to his Truth Social account that included reference to a "unified Reich" after criticism of the use of language often associated with the Nazi regime.
Testing is under way to determine if a strain of avian flu detected in a Victorian egg farm is the deadly new strain causing mass bird deaths around the world.
Researchers are predicting aircraft to experience a doubling or trebling of severe turbulence in the coming decades "if the climate continues to change as we expect".
Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of creating a voice for the ChatGPT system that sounded "eerily similar" to the actress after she declined to voice the chatbot herself.