A New York state appeals court judge on Thursday temporarily halted the scheduled Oct. 2 trial in New York.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was criminally charged on Thursday with deceiving a gun dealer into selling him a firearm, in the first-ever prosecution of a sitting president’s child.

France is set to ban disposable e-cigarettes – known locally as “puffs” – because of the danger they pose to the environment and public health.

Australia will toughen laws stopping former defence staff from training “certain foreign militaries”, introducing a penalty of 20 years prison and widening the ban to stop any Australians offering military training to countries seen as a national security risk.

Hong Kong closed schools after authorities issued the second-highest rain signal and warned of extensive flooding, just days after the Asian financial hub was drenched by the heaviest rain since records began 140 years ago.

Hungary has agreed with Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria to bar Ukrainian grain imports to protect their markets.

Ukraine said it seriously damaged two Russian naval vessels and struck port infrastructure in the Crimean city of Sevastopol early on Wednesday.

Fisherman Vancho Vasilevski’s boat frequently runs aground when he sails on Lake Prespa.

Residents of the devastated Libyan city of Derna desperately searched for missing relatives on Wednesday.

Mexican lawmakers heard testimony that “we are not alone” in the universe and saw the alleged remains of non-human beings in an extraordinary hearing marking the Latin American country’s first congressional event on UFOs.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for a rare summit on Wednesday.

A federal judge temporarily blocked a ban on carrying guns in New Mexico’s largest city after the order by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham threw the state into the center of the U.S. gun-rights debate.