Mexican journalist Nelson Matus was killed Saturday in the coastal resort city of Acapulco in the southwestern state of Guerrero, local media reported.

The National Party has promised to create a $500 million Pothole Repair Fund for repairs to local roads and state highways if it’s elected.

Iranian police are resuming controversial patrols to ensure women obey dress codes and cover their hair in public, state media reports.

An extreme heatwave peaked in the western United States on Sunday, with temperatures reaching 128 Fahrenheit (53 Celsius) in the California desert, while flash flooding continued to menace the Northeast, killing at least five people.

A second firefighter has been killed in Canada as the country battles its worst season of wildfires on record.

The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq’s southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and cultural authorities who condemned it as a further erosion of Iraq’s cultural heritage.

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed by a fire in a poor neighbourhood of the South African port city of Durban.

Six people including three children have been killed in a kindergarten stabbing in China’s south-eastern Guangdong province.

As John Kerry touches down in China, the main question will be whether the world’s biggest superpowers – and polluters – can dispel diplomatic tensions to focus on key climate goals.

Rescuers working to reach vehicles trapped in a flooded tunnel near the South Korean city of Cheongiu have recovered nine bodies.

Firefighters were trying to contain a wildfire which burned out of control.

A Chinese military-run hospital ship has arrived in Kiribati for the first time, as China vies with the United States for influence in the Pacific region.