Six former London police officers were given suspended prison sentences for sharing offensive and racist messages on WhatsApp, including references to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and other members of the royal family.

Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities and said it had attacked dozens of targets, leaving 350 Palestinians dead and the rest struggling to survive in rapidly shrinking areas of refuge.

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned.

Donald Trump should remain barred from speaking publicly about court staff in his civil fraud trial, the New York attorney general’s office said on Wednesday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a rare move on Wednesday to formally warn the Security Council of a global threat from the Gaza war as Arab states seek to use this alert to push the council to call for a ceasefire within days.

A shooting on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, claimed at least three victims before the bloodshed ended with the suspect dead, authorities said.

A passenger severely injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in the central Philippines has died, taking the death toll from the accident to 17, authorities said.

Rescuers used boats to reach people stranded in their homes amid widespread flooding in India’s Chennai after cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern coast, bringing in heavy rain and winds that uprooted trees and damaged roads.

Israel’s military bombarded southern Gaza’s main city in what it said was the fiercest fighting since it began a ground invasion to eliminate Hamas five weeks ago, while the U.S. again pressed Israel to minimise Palestinian civilian casualties.

Facing a soaring death toll from Israel’s renewed offensive in southern Gaza, the Biden administration is trying to pressure its ally to minimize civilian deaths while stopping well short of the kind of measures that might force it to listen, such as threatening to restrict military aid.

Cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern Indian coast on Tuesday with intense winds, its arrival preceded by torrential rains and flooding that killed at least 13 people, as officials assessed the damage.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he may have skipped a re-election bid if he were not facing Donald Trump, adding that the Republican posed a unique threat to the country.