Russia is finding it “significantly” harder to conduct combat operations against Ukraine because of a rise in Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russian weapons supplies, ammunition depots and fuel refineries, a senior commander has said.

The Pope has had two episodes of “acute respiratory failure”, the Vatican has said.

A “coalition of the willing” could provide boots on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. 

Donald Trump has hit out at the Ukrainian president once again, just four days after an explosive on-camera spat between the pair.

At least two people have died after a car was driven into a group of pedestrians in the western German city of Mannheim – with a large police operation under way.

Two suspects arrested amid a murder probe into the death of a Scottish businessman in Kenya can be held for 21 days for further police investigations, a court has ruled.

A mother has gone on trial accused of kidnapping and selling her young daughter in South Africa.

The world’s most prolific blood donor, whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies, has died in Australia.

A 65-year-old man has been killed and others wounded after a knife attack in the Israeli city of Haifa, officials have said.