At least 44 people died amid heavy rainfall in northeastern Brazil on Friday and Saturday as downpours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the country's fourth major flooding event in five months.
Colombians will make a choice for president between a leftist senator and a populist businessman in a run-off contest in June after none of the six candidates in Sunday's first round got 50 per cent of the vote.
The World Health Organization said Sunday that monkeypox constitutes a "moderate risk" to overall public health at global level after cases were reported in countries where the disease is not typically found.
The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season strengthened on Sunday as it spiralled toward the southern coast of Mexico, with maximum sustained winds of 177 km/h that are expected to worsen before the storm makes landfall on Monday.
Punjabi-language rapper and music producer Sidhu Moose Wala has been shot dead in India, according to officials. He was 28.
Residents of Uvalde, Texas, say they don't know what to make of the stunning admission by police Friday that they waited more than an hour outside the locked door of two classrooms at Robb Elementary School while children were inside with the gunman who shot 19 of their classmates and two teachers.
Three days after an 18-year-old gunman walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and fired on two classrooms full of third- and fourth-graders, the devastating and life-altering impact on the children who survived and the relatives of those killed is apparent in the small, tight-knit town where the tragedy occurred.
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hoping to console a city stricken by grief and anger when they meet with families affected by the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 students and two teachers.
