Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday to resuscitate his presidential bid, while Bernie Sanders has the lead in California, which has over 400 delegates in play. Elsewhere, the campaigns of Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren face hard questions.
Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the third election in less than a year, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party holding on to a solid lead but falling short of the outright parliamentary majority needed to form a government.
South Korea reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as many sick people waited for hospital beds in Daegu, the city at the centre of the worst outbreak outside China.
Key takeaways on the state of the Democratic presidential contest, amid a sudden turnaround. Joe Biden's campaign appeared virtually dead on Saturday, and was resurrected three days later as a top contender following a string of wins on Super Tuesday.
The U.S. conducted its first airstrike against Taliban forces in Afghanistan since signing an ambitious peace deal with the militant group.
