Police have identified Jake Davison, 22, as the man who killed five people in Plymouth, southwest England, then took his own life in Britain's first mass shooting in over a decade. Authorities said the shooter had a gun licence and that his mother was among the victims.
Twenty-seven people aboard a Carnival cruise tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week, according to the Belize Tourism Board.
The Taliban completed their sweep of Afghanistan's south on Friday as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war.
In a major blow to New Zealand's small but vibrant screen industry, Amazon Studios announced Friday it would move filming of the second season of its Lord of the Rings series to Britain.
The Tokyo Olympics have ended, but it's still vacation season in Japan, and many people are ignoring government pleas to avoid travel and stay away from bars and restaurants even as the coronavirus spikes at record levels.
The Taliban now control all but four of Afghanistan's major cities, and Canadian officials are preparing for the capital Kabul to fall imminently.
Turkish officials say search-and-rescue crews have recovered 10 more bodies overnight, raising the death toll from the severe floods and mudslides that struck the north of the country to 27 on Friday.
