In January 2020, they were seniors in high school. Graduation was just around the corner. But so was a deadly pandemic.

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Dnipro regions and the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed at least two civilians, set a food factory ablaze and damaged other infrastructure, homes and commercial buildings on Saturday, regional officials said.

On 2 January, a young Ukrainian weapons inspector, Krystyna Kimachuk, got word that an unusual-looking missile had crashed into a building in the city of Kharkiv.

The occupation of a building at Columbia University by pro-Palestinian student protesters was in its 18th hour when photos and videos dinged across students’ phones: police had parked at least seven jail buses south of the campus.

Mexican authorities have located three bodies in the state of Baja California where one American and two Australian tourists were reported missing, the local prosecutor’s office said in a statement late on Friday.

Canadian police said on Friday they had arrested and charged three Indian nationals with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June 2023 and said they were probing possible links to the Indian government.

Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring an acceptable photo ID.

Scandal, hush-money payments, secret recordings and Donald Trump’s alleged gag order violations took centre stage during his tenth day in court.

The captain of a dive boat has been jailed for four years over the deaths of 34 people in a fire aboard his vessel five years ago in California.

Narendra Modi will find out in June if he’s won a record third term in a row as India’s prime minister.

US President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic”, grouping them together with Russia and China as countries that “don’t want immigrants”.

US President Joe Biden has urged pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses to uphold the rule of law.