More than 200,000 households were temporarily left without electricity in southern France after power cuts, which threatened to disrupt the Cannes Film Festival.
A medical charity chief has spoken out about the deaths of a doctor's nine children in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, and the "almost impossibility" of providing care in the region.
Dissident Iranian director Jafar Pahani - who has been arrested several times in Iran for his filmmaking - has won the prestigious Palme d'Or accolade at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
A "massive" Russian drone and missile attack hit several regions in Ukraine overnight - leaving at least 12 dead, including children, and dozens injured, authorities have said.
Nine of a doctor's 10 children have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on their home in Gaza, which also left her surviving son badly injured and her husband in a critical condition.
The head of the UN has said Israel has only authorised for Gaza what amounts to a "teaspoon" of aid after at least 60 people died in overnight airstrikes.
In mid-May, the World Health Organisation assessed that there were "nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death".
President Trump's Friday flurry of pronouncements marks the return of negotiation by smartphone and may trigger another period of profound uncertainty for international trade and financial markets.
North Korea has launched an investigation into how a new warship ended up on its side and taking on water with leader Kim Jong Un looking on in dismay.
The man suspected of shooting dead two Israeli embassy workers in Washington DC leaned over and fired at them repeatedly after they fell to the ground, the FBI has said.