In a video released after midnight, Ukraine time, Zelensky said the Russians wanted to “physically liquidate” Ukraine’s lawful local authorities.

Russia’s UN ambassador called photographs of pregnant women fleeing an air strike fake news, but one of the women pictured has given birth to a baby girl.

Did WNBA star Brittney Griner smuggle hashish oil in her luggage, as Moscow police allege - or is she a bargaining chip in the new cold war?

Child abuse investigators in Texas were ordered to prioritise transgender cases after the state’s governor ordered certain medical care to be treated as abuse.

An analysis of hand sizes in Spanish cave art concluded that many of them belonged to small children and that painting may have been a simple form of play.

Officials are said to be looking at diverting all international flights away from the financial centre to ease pressure on quarantine hotels.

Claims the Prince said war in Africa was normal have been proved false, but his remark that war in Europe feels alien to “our generation” still angers many.

The war in Ukraine is close enough for Tim Tirasipol to hear over the border every morning at 5am.

Liberal Senator James Paterson urged British MPs to follow Australia in pushing back when foreign powers use non-military methods to undermine another country.

The vigil – in memory of Sarah Everard, who was raped and murdered by a serving police officer – was shut down by police.

More than 1300 people have died in the 10-day siege of the port city, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

From the continued Russian attacks on Ukraine to the celebration of International Women's Day, these are the best photos from around the world in the past week, as chosen by The Age's photo editors.

The first peer-reviewed global estimate of excess deaths says more than 18 million people have died during the pandemic.

Social media accounts have sprung up to follow the movements of these luxurious vehicles and keep track of which ones have been frozen or taken into possession by governments.

Gallery: Ukraine - Russia crisis, March 11

Shane Warne was largely unknown on the Thai holiday island but, after dying suddenly in a villa, his name there will now never be forgotten.

American missile defence forces in the Pacific have been placed in a state of “enhanced readiness”, while Kim John-un says he wants to expand his “space ambitions”.

His mother was shot dead in front of him. Now Volodymyr lies in intensive care while his family shelters in the hospital basement. Kate Geraghty and Anthony Galloway report from Kharkiv.

Before she even stepped on the tarmac in Warsaw, the US Vice-President’s visit was overshadowed by a delicate dance around the transfer of Polish fighter jets that Ukraine desperately needs.

The eastern theatre of the war in Ukraine is a vital link between Russia’s northern operations - and a danger zone for the Ukrainian high command.

Smollett, who is black and gay, lied to police when he told them he was accosted on a dark Chicago street by two masked strangers.

More than 1300 people have died in the 10-day siege of the frigid city of Mariupol, according to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

Jamaica is offering free money to the first 100,000 citizens who use its soon-to-be-launched Jam-Dex digital currency.

An injured pregnant woman being evacuated after the shelling of a maternity hospital is just one of the shocking images captured as the Russian invasion entered a 13th day.

The plane carrying Shane Warne’s body has arrived in Melbourne, six days after the cricketer’s shock death at the age of 52.

The World Health Organisation said it had confirmed 18 Russian attacks on medical faculties since the invasion began.

Mr Shalkivskyi also revealed he had asked his parents to leave Kyiv but they had refused and were spending their nights in a bomb shelter.

Anders Tegnell insists he never pursued a herd immunity strategy, but that is what many people remember of the approach in Sweden where COVID has killed 17,000 people.

The ingredients that helped make Donald Trump president of the United States just made Yoon Suk-yeol the next leader of the Asian powerhouse economy.

Tāne Mahuta is the largest kauri tree known to be living: 54 metres tall, 16 metres in circumference. The death of its species would threaten “Māori identity itself”.

In contrast to the Kremlin’s famed use of trolls and bots to sow doubts among democracies, the US’s strategy of sharing factual information has built trust between the US, allied countries and war-hit Ukraine.

The Golden Rose synagogue is providing refuge for Ukrainian Jews fleeing Putin’s invasion. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report from Dnipro.

The warning suggested Russia might seek to create a pretense for escalating the two-week-old conflict that has seen the Russian offensive slowed by stronger-than-expected Ukrainian defenders.

In her speech, Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, said the “deep misogyny” that motivated the Witchcraft Act had not been consigned to history. “We’re left with that still.”

In a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, UK PM Boris Johnson vowed to provide the military equipment Ukraine needed to defend itself.

“Parky” says his time with Warne, who he described as charismatic, complex and fascinating was always “filled with laughter”.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also declined to echo Donald Trump’s praise of Putin, in a rare break by the top House Republican with the former president. 

David Bennett made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart in January this year.

Ukraine accused Russia bombing a childrens’ hospital in Mariupol during a supposed ceasefire.

Personal attacks obscured otherwise substantial policy differences in a campaign that revealed a populace bitterly divided about the best way forward.

The “Endurance” was discovered six kilometres from the position recorded by its captain Frank Worsley.

As hundreds of thousands of Afghans try to flee persecution from the Taliban or starvation from the country’s economic collapse, business has boomed for the people smugglers.

A woman, known as Claire, said Eric Zemmour molested her when she was an 18-year-old intern helping him with a computer problem. Eight women allege assault.

These days we celebrate Mum’s birthday on November 15. What’s a few days, or possibly months either side, when it’s a miracle she’s alive at all?

A vast convoy of invaders 64 kilometres long has been parked north of the capital for days. Military experts try to guess why, residents prepare to fight.

Just as the arrival of Moscow’s first McDonald’s marked the beginning of a new era in geopolitics, so does the fast food giant’s departure 32 years later.

Suffering and displacement continues as the Ukraine-Russia crisis moves into day 12. These photos from our image partners have been curated by our editors.

Police arrested 17 youths rioting outside a New Zealand court where Germaine Greer, the champion of Women’s Liberation, was fined for the use of obscene language during a lecture at Auckland University.

Fishermen discovered the injured manatee with gashes on its head and body in Marea del Portillo Bay, a far-flung inlet more than 850 km from capital Havana.

The multimillion-pound payment to Virginia Roberts Giuffre brings to an end a seven-month legal battle that has left Andrew’s reputation in tatters.