Georgia state officials arrested the father of the 14-year-old suspected in a school shooting that killed four people and wounded nine others, saying the father knowingly allowed his son to have the murder weapon.

Powerful gales and heavy rain from Super Typhoon Yagi drenched southern China.

Pope Francis left Indonesia morning for Papua New Guinea, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will continue an ambitious 12-day tour across Southeast Asia and Oceania.

The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said, as global warming continues to intensify.

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centers in the south of the embattled Gaza Strip for their children to be vaccinated against polio in the second stage of a campaign that has so far seen 187,000 youngsters inoculated.

Fresh details about the last moments of a plane operated by Brazilian regional carrier Voepass could be unveiled in a preliminary report set for release, as investigators weigh possible contributing factors like icing and maintenance.

German police shot dead an Austrian suspected Islamist gunman in Munich in an exchange of fire close to the Israeli consulate, prompting politicians to stress the importance of protecting Israeli sites in the country.

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at medical centers in the south of the embattled Gaza Strip on Thursday for their children to be vaccinated against polio in the second stage of a campaign that has so far seen 187,000 youngsters inoculated.

Five Palestinian men have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says.

Veteran French conservative Michel Barnier has taken over as prime minister, almost two months after France’s snap elections ended in a political stalemate.

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, has pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in a surprise move that avoids a potentially embarrassing trial weeks before the US presidential election.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he would establish a government efficiency commission headed by billionaire supporter Elon Musk if he wins the Nov. 5 election, during a wide-ranging speech in which he laid out his economic vision for the country.