Video posted from Ukraine’s Defence Ministry claims to show soldiers flashing victory signs at a border post, as Russia loses ground in the east.

“I thought there was a bomb or something going off: boom, boom, boom,” says Buffalo resident Cecelia Williams. “But this was a terrorist act. ”

A Ukraine Ministry of Defence video purports to show Ukrainian army on Russian border.

After a man opened fire in the California church, killing one and wounding five, members of the congregation tackled and hog-tied him with an extension cord.

The controversial $530,000 statue had already been relocated from London and its unveiling delayed due to vandalism fears.

Communities begin to pick up the pieces as people return to their home towns to assess the damage.

New research shows that the eruption at Tonga was a far bigger explosion than any in the 20th century.

The New York governor said an investigation would focus on what could have been done to stop the suspect, who had advertised his views online and been on authorities’ radar.

“Great replacement theory”, which casts immigration as part of a plot by “elites” to seize power from white people was once confined to far-right white extremists.

The secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said that Ukraine could win the war, which is not going as Russia planned.

Finland will apply for NATO membership ending a decade's long policy of military neutrality

The moves by Sweden and Finland to join NATO have been the direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ten people have been killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Israeli and Palestinian opponents of the plan have been defeated, despite claims the cable car would ruin the historical site.

A defiant Ukrainian president has also vowed to one day host the Eurovision Song Contest in the embattled city of Mariupol, currently in Russian hands.

Not your everyday arrest:' Police moved an alligator after it turned up outside a South Carolina school in the USA.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

The Buffalo mass shooting was inspired by the horrors of the Christchurch massacre. But America won’t respond with sweeping gun law reforms the way NZ did.

Tattoo artists, long treated as criminals for their work, say that it is time to end the stigma against their business.

Police officials said the “racially motived” gunman wore body armor and military-style clothing before opening fire in Buffalo, New York.