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

The vice president made headlines when he intervened during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, but his input was more muted when Irish leader Micheal Martin found himself in the hot seat.

The US president became distracted by his vice president's wardrobe choice while meeting the Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

Jerald Kirkwood was in his bedroom when his one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, leapt onto the bed and got his paw stuck in the trigger guard of his gun.

An Indiana woman who was trapped in her car after a crash survived for nearly a week on water from a small creek before she was discovered and rescued, authorities said.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, with whom Australia was negotiating in the days before the tariffs were finalised, singled out Australia for criticism.

The former Philippine president may have thought he was too powerful to be arrested over the deaths of thousands of people. He was wrong.

For now, Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful voice.

Nicholas Soames said the decision to restore a bust of his grandfather to the Oval Office was “awful ghastliness”.

Jailed serial killer Charles William Davis Jr has confessed to the 1975 murder of Ann Sturtz in the US.

He was one of China’s most well-known faces before disappearing from public view. Now Jack Ma is back, and his company is ready to spend billions.

A masked visitor identifying himself as the "Box Demon" has been caught on a doorbell camera in the US.

The document prepared for the Kremlin says Russia should stoke tensions between the US and other countries to weaken the President’s negotiating position.

Officials of the world’s largest trading bloc made clear that the tariffs are aimed at products made in Republican-held states.

I realise I’m not a billionaire thought leader, but these are hard times, even if your new BFF is in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium could be just the start as the US president also has plans to target other imports.

The decision to remove the giant yellow mural, installed during Donald Trump’s first term, shows how the president is leaving his mark on Washington DC.

Rodrigo Duterte, former Philippine president, extradited to face ICC charges over thousands of judicial killings during his tenure.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US would present the ceasefire offer to the Kremlin. “It’ll be up to them to say yes or no,” he said.

The notion that a peace deal can be brokered with Vladimir Putin is a dangerous delusion, as the US is about to find out.