As rescuers battled to clear roads, improved weather conditions revealed the scale of a disaster that has killed nearly 800 people in Southeast Asia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appeared in court for the first time since asking the country's president for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, a request backed by US President Donald Trump.

Former French movie star Brigitte Bardot is currently recovering and wants to reassure those concerned about her health not to worry.

A self-described independent news site editor is one of four Australians charged over alleged involvement in a satanic child sex abuse material ring.

The death toll from floods and landslides following cyclonic rains in the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 303.

Hong Kong's leaders oversaw a ceremony on Saturday to mourn the at least 128 people killed in a high-rise apartment complex fire, a toll that is likely to rise further with 200 others still unaccounted for days after the tragedy.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's powerful chief of staff Andriy Yermak, a close ally who has headed Ukraine's negotiation team at fraught US-backed peace talks, has quit, hours after anti-corruption agents searched his home.