Israeli forces have launched an overnight raid on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, with reports of tanks and heavy gunfire at the facility.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his determination to launch an offensive in Rafah, defying international criticism.

A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland because of another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula - the fourth since December.

The US State Department has announced a charter flight for its citizens stranded in Haiti, as gang violence and hunger grip the impoverished country.

A double Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa has killed at least 20 people and left more than 70 wounded, local authorities said.

The first criminal trial against Donald Trump will be delayed until at least mid-April, a judge has decided.

An Australian farm has smashed the record for the world's largest blueberry with a fruit the size of a ping-pong ball.

At least 60 migrants have died after a rubber dinghy ran into trouble in the Mediterranean Sea, according to survivors.

The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78.