A 57-year-old lorry driver has been detained after loads of potatoes was found spilled on a key bridge linking two Danish islands, police have said. The motorist was held on suspicion of causing reckless endangerment to life.

Sympathisers of a young woman given a lengthy prison sentence for participating in attacks on neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists held protests and scuffled with police in some German cities after the verdict.

The US House has approved a debt ceiling and budget cuts package as President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans against fierce conservative blowback and progressive dissent.

Europe’s inflation has taken a positive turn with a significant drop to 6. 1% – but prices are still posing a pinch to shoppers who are yet to see real relief in what they pay for food and other necessities.

The latest pre-dawn Russian missile attack on Kyiv has killed at least three people, including a nine-year-old girl and her mother, Ukrainian officials said.

New Zealand police have filed five murder charges against the man they say lit a deadly fire at a Wellington hostel two weeks ago.

Russian forces began June with a fresh aerial bombardment of Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding others, authorities said.

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of “gangster-like” hypocrisy for criticising her country’s failed launch of a military spy satellite and insisted a successful launch will be made soon.

Alex Murdaugh faced charges in court on Wednesday of federal money laundering and wire fraud. He is accused of stealing money from his clients, and although he pleaded not guilty, his lawyer said that might change soon.

That ’70s Show star Danny Masterson has been found guilty of two counts of rape in a Los Angeles retrial in which the Church of Scientology played a central role.

US President Joe Biden has approved a new package of military aid for Ukraine that totals up to $300 million  and includes additional munitions for drones and other weapons.

Rapper, producer and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs is suing Diageo, saying the spirits company did not make promised investments in his vodka and tequila brands and treated them as inferior “urban” products.

An unprecedented string of wildfires in Canada’s Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia continued to burn out of control for a fourth day on Wednesday, prompted the evacuation of 18,000 people.

Amazon workers upset about recent lay-offs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact are planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters.

Some of Adidas’s remaining Yeezy shoes are back on sale months after the German sportswear company cut ties with Kanye West.

Ron DeSantis was making a four-stop blitz through Iowa during his first full day of presidential campaigning on Wednesday, aiming for a personal connection with voters while intensifying his criticism of former president Donald Trump.

A Moscow court has set a new date for a hearing paving the way for another trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him in prison for decades.

Theodoros Pangalos, a former Greek deputy prime minister and foreign minister known for his undiplomatic outbursts, has died aged 84.

Irishman Mick Ryan and 156 others were killed when a Boeing 737 Max crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 10, 2019.

Hundreds of ethnic Serbs have gathered in a town in northern Kosovo, days after clashes that injured 30 soldiers from a Nato-led peacekeeping force and more than 50 Serbs.

World number two Jon Rahm believes the likes of Sergio Garcia should be able to compete in Rome and said he was sad that 'politics have gotten in the way' of the biennial event.

Latvian MPs on Wednesday picked the country’s long-serving and popular foreign minister, a strong backer of Ukraine, as its new head of state in a tight vote.

A priceless 16th century Italian painting that was looted by Nazi Germany during the Second World War and discovered in Japan has been returned to Poland.

Twitter may now be worth one third of what Elon Musk paid for the social media platform just seven months ago, figures show.

German inflation eased to 6. 1% in May following several months of declines – although Europe’s biggest economy also registered another painful increase in food prices of nearly 15%.

Last year was a mixed bag pay-wise for the women who run companies in the US S&P 500 stock market index, figures show.

Sweden is close to declaring itself “smoke-free” – defined as having fewer than 5% daily smokers in the population.

United Nations appeal judges have significantly expanded the war crimes sentences of two allies of the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.

A 28-year-old woman has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison in eastern Germany for taking part in a series of attacks on neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists over a period of two years.

New Zealand’s national airline is asking passengers to step onto the scales before they board international flights.

Typhoon Mawar appears to be losing force as it heads for Japan’s Okinawa Islands, where the United States maintains a significant military presence, after largely skirting Taiwan and the Philippines.

Troops from the Nato-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo have set up barricades in a northern town following clashes with ethnic Serbs that left 30 international soldiers injured.

China’s ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting the risks posed by advances in artificial intelligence (AI).

North Korea’s attempt to put the country’s first spy satellite into space failed on Wednesday. It was a setback to leader Kim Jong Un’s push to boost his military capabilities as tensions with the United States and South Korea rise.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis kicked off a multistate campaign blitz aimed at establishing himself as the Republican Party’s leading next-generation culture warrior while bolstering his place as Donald Trump’s chief rival.

The US coast guard said Tuesday that it is searching for a man who fell from a cruise ship off the coast of Florida.

The world is fortunate a nuclear accident has not happened in Ukraine, the UN nuclear chief said on Tuesday.

A California appeals court has said that Leslie Van Houten, who participated in two killings alongside cult leader Charles Manson in 1969, should be let out of prison on parole.

Prosecutors on Tuesday described how a heavily armed suspect barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shot every worshipper he could find in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro will stand trial in September on contempt of Congress charges filed after he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the “time is now” for Turkey to drop its objections to Sweden joining Nato but said the Biden administration also believed that Turkey should be provided with upgraded F-16 fighters “as soon as possible”.

Nato has sent 700 more troops to Kosovo to help quell violent protests and has put another battalion on standby in case the riots spread, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said.

Disgraced Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes is in custody at a Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

A Pennsylvania restaurant owner who screamed death threats directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while storming the US Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than two years in prison.