A teacher and at least eight children have died after a truck carrying them to a school festival crashed in the central Philippines.
Aviation manufacturer Boeing has said it is booking a 4.9 billion US dollars (£3.9 billion) charge to cover possible compensation to airlines that have cancelled thousands of flights since the 737 Max jet was grounded after two deadly accidents.
At least six people have been injured and dozens of residences evacuated following a gas explosion which destroyed a home in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The price of new and used diesel and petrol cars will go up by as much as €1,000 under plans to clamp down on emissions.
A fishmonger who died this week of Ebola may have carried the virus from Congo into Rwanda as well as Uganda, the World Health Organisation said, as health workers struggled to track down people she could have infected.
Documents released by a judge's order yesterday detailed a flurry of communications involving Donald Trump, his campaign team and former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to engineer hush-money payments to a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the president shortly before the 2016 election.
The Pentagon has said it has approved a request to send an additional 1,000 Texas National Guard and 1,100 active duty troops to the border with Mexico, the latest deployment in support of US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
