Insults hurled by Donald Trump at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are "ghastly to hear" and "complete untruths", former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

The US has abstained from a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution it drafted on the war in Ukraine after the body approved amendments proposed by European countries.

Pope Francis's health has shown a "slight improvement" but he remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said.

In a strictly military sense, the war in Ukraine is not going so badly for Kyiv. 

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to "create unity" in Europe as it adjusts to the new Trump administration and Russia's war on Ukraine.

Former Arsenal and Real Madrid footballer Mesut Ozil has transitioned into politics after joining Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party.

An American Airlines flight travelling from New York to New Delhi was diverted midair due to a "bomb threat".

An explosion has taken place after plastic bottles were thrown into the garden of the Russian consulate in France.

Pope Francis is in good spirits, eating normally and continuing to receive treatment, Vatican sources have said.

In less than a fortnight, Donald Trump has shredded long-standing security assumptions about American support for Europe, creating a new crisis for Ukraine and leaving the whole continent in greater peril than at any time since the Second World War.

Germany's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) have won the country's federal elections - as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) scores its best-ever result and Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party collapses.

In her desperate search for answers over her son Valentin's death, Elena even turned to Vladimir Putin.

Initial results appear to confirm what we have known for weeks: that the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) have got the most votes in the federal election, with Friedrich Merz most likely to be the next chancellor.

The Pope remains in a critical condition and is now showing an "initial, mild" kidney problem - but is "vigilant" and took part in Mass in hospital with those caring for him.

A British couple in their 70s who run education programmes in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban, their children say. 

The Hezbollah faithful packed into Lebanon's largest stadium to show their support for the group and pay their respects to their charismatic leader Hassan Nasrallah who was killed in a massive Israeli airstrike.

Israeli tanks have moved into the Occupied West Bank shortly after the defence minister declared an escalation of its operation - ordering troops to remain there "for the coming year".

Police in Spain have arrested 48 people in connection with a suspected human trafficking ring - believed to have lured more than 1,000 women to the country for sex work.

Four people have been arrested after a man was killed and seven police officers wounded in a knife attack in eastern France which has been linked to Islamic extremism.