Russia’s aviation watchdog said on Friday that an Azerbaijan Airlines plane which crashed in Kazakhstan had decided to reroute from its original destination in Chechnya amid dense fog and a local alert over Ukrainian drones.

Described as a “reluctant king” in his first stint as prime minister, the soft-spoken Manmohan Singh, who died on Thursday at the age of 92, was arguably one of India’s most successful leaders.

A cool change has given fire crews a chance to create more fire breaks and assess damage as they continue to battle a massive bushfire in a Victorian national park.

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino has denied claims by US President-elect Donald Trump that there are Chinese soldiers stationed at the Panama Canal.

At least three people have died in a bus crash in Norway, police say.

Two people taking part in Australia’s annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race have died in separate incidents, according to police.

A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.

The Russian government has cautioned against promoting “hypotheses” about the cause of the crash of a Russia-bound passenger plane that killed 38 people in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

The World Health Organization Head says he was at a Yemeni airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia made a “conscious choice” by launching a major overnight attack on his country’s energy infrastructure on Christmas Day.

More than 1,500 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Mozambique, taking advantage of ongoing political unrest triggered by disputed election results, police say.

A body was found in the landing gear compartment, also known as the wheel well, of a United Airlines plane after it landed in Hawaii on Christmas Eve, the company said.