A California prosecutor has said the Half Moon Bay gunman was angered by a $100 (£80) repair bill he had to pay following a collision between his forklift and a co-worker’s bulldozer.

Two additional Memphis police officers, including the white officer seen encountering Tyre Nichols during his traffic stop were relieved of duty and three Memphis Fire Department personnel were fired as the investigation into the Jan. 7 death of Nichols continues, investigators announced Monday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Israel and the West Bank may have been in the works for weeks, but it couldn’t come at a more pressing time.

The Memphis Police Department has disciplined an officer involved in the arrest, beating and death of Tyre Nichols, the department said Monday, widening the circle of punishment for a killing that has already led to the murder indictment of five officers and outraged the nation with another display of police brutality.

Couples in China’s Sichuan province will be allowed to have as many children as they want, as the country continues to try and get a grip on its declining population.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel and the Palestinians on Monday to ease tensions following a spike in violence that has put the region on edge. The bloodshed has alarmed the Biden administration as it attempts to find common ground with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing government.

At least 59 people have been killed by a bomb that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Chinese health officials say the country’s current wave of COVID-19 infections is “coming to an end”.

The bodies of two men caught in an avalanche on Sunday have been found in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

The weekly number of new community cases of COVID-19 has fallen again, to 10,589, the Ministry of Health has reported.

Damaged or not, all Auckland schools will have a delayed start to the first term of the year.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Egypt at the start of a three-day Middle East visit with Israeli-Palestinian tensions escalating and Russia’s war in Ukraine and Iran’s nuclear programme high on his agenda.