Donald Trump briefly threatened to escalate his trade war with Canada by doubling his planned tariffs on its steel and aluminium from 25% to 50%.

As Ukraine says it has accepted a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, US secretary of state Marco Rubio says "the ball is now in Russia's court".

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to agree to a ceasefire with Russia after successful talks with the US.

A five-year-old boy was "incinerated" when a pressurised oxygen chamber exploded at a medical facility in the US state of Michigan.

Israel has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip and five more in the West Bank in the past 24 hours, Palestinian officials have said.

The Dalai Lama has said his successor will be born outside China - but Beijing says it will choose the next spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.

Seven members of the medical team that treated Diego Maradona before his death will today go on trial for homicide in Buenos Aires.

The controversial former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has been arrested over claims of crimes against humanity.

Greenland is remote, much of it untouched and beautiful.  It has until recently managed to stay out of the limelight.