Harvey Weinstein&s retrial on rape and sexual assault charges got under way yesterday, as a prosecutor and a defence lawyer offered starkly contrasting explanations for the disgraced movie mogul&s encounters with women who hoped to make it big in Hollywood.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas yesterday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the Turkish city of 16 million people, though there were no immediate reports of serious damage.

An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza killed 10 people yesterday, an attack that Israel said targeted militants operating from within the complex.

Actor-turned-statesman Volodymyr Zelensky may have only ever played a soldier, but as a war-time leader he knows an ambush when he sees one.