A third of the global economy will be in recession this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

Ukraine’s president says Russia is planning a protracted campaign of drone attacks in a bid to demoralise Ukraine.

Police have charged a 19-year-old with two counts of attempted murder over an attack on three police officers near Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ’s body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday as tens of thousands queued to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade ago.

Ukraine has confirmed it carried out a strike in the occupied region of Donetsk, which it earlier claimed killed 400 Russian troops.

Thousands of people have been paying their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI at his lying in state in the Vatican.

Four people have died after a mid-air collision between two helicopters near Sea World on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv on Sunday night as the latest wave of drone and missile strikes from Russia continued.

At least nine people, including a 10-year-old boy, suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said.

Former Pope Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95, asked for forgiveness for those he has “wronged” in the spiritual testament published following his death.

Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s president for the third time on Sunday, as threats of violence loomed from supporters of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.

Countries around the world have celebrated New Year, after two years of muted or cancelled events due to the Covid pandemic.