A federal judge in Brazil has ordered mining giants BHP, Vale and their Samarco iron ore joint venture to pay 47.6bn reais ($9.67bn) in damages over a deadly dam burst in 2015.

The UN's top court could issue emergency measures ordering Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza.

Measures will be taken to introduce a new Bill through the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) to protect the consumers who are inconvenienced due to online businesses, Trade, Commerce and Food Security Minister Nalin Fernando said today.

Eighteen people were killed and 130 injured in Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities on Tuesday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky says.

The US says its forces have carried out strikes in Iraq on three facilities used by Iran-backed militia.

A manhunt is under way in the US state of Illinois after multiple shootings left eight people dead, police say.

At least 27 people have been killed in a shelling attack in the Russian-held city of Donetsk, the Moscow-installed leader of the region says.

More than 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza during Israel's offensive there, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

A number of US military personnel have been injured in a missile attack on an airbase in western Iraq.