An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, the State Emergency Service said on Thursday.

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.

Donald Trump has attacked Volodymyr Zelensky as efforts in London to broker peace were downgraded.

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.