Ukraine has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "cynically" ordering massive missile strikes as negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the US meet to discuss a plan to end the almost four-year-long war.

Snow has fallen over parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas in a frosty prelude to a winter storm that is expected to converge with bitter Arctic cold and engulf much of the United States over the weekend.

Reports in 2019 that Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland were instant fodder for late night TV comedians but dismissed as another example of a president operating on fantastical whims.

Efforts to rescue at least six people buried by a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park ended with police shifting their focus to recovering human remains.

Donald Trump is not the first US president to push for territorial expansion. Throughout history, the United States acquired land through transactions, treaties and war. With its designs on Greenland, America invoked its national myth of "manifest de...