Volunteers in central Chile tried to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris Monday from neighbourhoods devastated by wildfires over the past several days, as officials raised the death toll to 122. Hundreds of people remain missing.
A resident of Long Beach attempted to drive through a deeper section of water left by torrential rains in California, but his car sputtered to a halt when water surged up under the vehicle and into the muffler. Trapped inside his vehicle as the water level rose, he had to be rescued when firefighters arrived on scene and pulled him out through a window.
King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment, Buckingham Palace says.
A Chinese court gave a suspended death sentence to a China-born Australian democracy blogger on Monday. The Australian government, which has repeatedly raised his case over the years, said it was appalled.
