The plane carrying Shane Warne’s body has arrived in Melbourne, six days after the cricketer’s shock death at the age of 52.

The World Health Organisation said it had confirmed 18 Russian attacks on medical faculties since the invasion began.

Mr Shalkivskyi also revealed he had asked his parents to leave Kyiv but they had refused and were spending their nights in a bomb shelter.

Anders Tegnell insists he never pursued a herd immunity strategy, but that is what many people remember of the approach in Sweden where COVID has killed 17,000 people.

The ingredients that helped make Donald Trump president of the United States just made Yoon Suk-yeol the next leader of the Asian powerhouse economy.

Tāne Mahuta is the largest kauri tree known to be living: 54 metres tall, 16 metres in circumference. The death of its species would threaten “Māori identity itself”.

In contrast to the Kremlin’s famed use of trolls and bots to sow doubts among democracies, the US’s strategy of sharing factual information has built trust between the US, allied countries and war-hit Ukraine.

An injured pregnant woman being evacuated, after the shelling of a maternity hospital, is just one of the shocking images captured as the Russian invasion entered a 13th day.

The Golden Rose synagogue is providing refuge for Ukrainian Jews fleeing Putin’s invasion. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report from Dnipro.

The warning suggested Russia might seek to create a pretense for escalating the two-week-old conflict that has seen the Russian offensive slowed by stronger-than-expected Ukrainian defenders.

In her speech, Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, said the “deep misogyny” that motivated the Witchcraft Act had not been consigned to history. “We’re left with that still.”

In a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, UK PM Boris Johnson vowed to provide the military equipment Ukraine needed to defend itself.

“Parky” says his time with Warne, who he described as charismatic, complex and fascinating was always “filled with laughter”.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also declined to echo Donald Trump’s praise of Putin, in a rare break by the top House Republican with the former president. 

David Bennett made history as the first person to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart in January this year.

Ukraine accused Russia bombing a childrens’ hospital in Mariupol during a supposed ceasefire.

Personal attacks obscured otherwise substantial policy differences in a campaign that revealed a populace bitterly divided about the best way forward.

The “Endurance” was discovered six kilometres from the position recorded by its captain Frank Worsley.

As hundreds of thousands of Afghans try to flee persecution from the Taliban or starvation from the country’s economic collapse, business has boomed for the people smugglers.

A woman, known as Claire, said Eric Zemmour molested her when she was an 18-year-old intern helping him with a computer problem. Eight women allege assault.

These days we celebrate Mum’s birthday on November 15. What’s a few days, or possibly months either side, when it’s a miracle she’s alive at all?

A vast convoy of invaders 64 kilometres long has been parked north of the capital for days. Military experts try to guess why, residents prepare to fight.

Just as the arrival of Moscow’s first McDonald’s marked the beginning of a new era in geopolitics, so does the fast food giant’s departure 32 years later.

Suffering and displacement continues as the Ukraine-Russia crisis moves into day 12. These photos from our image partners have been curated by our editors.

Police arrested 17 youths rioting outside a New Zealand court where Germaine Greer, the champion of Women’s Liberation, was fined for the use of obscene language during a lecture at Auckland University.

Fishermen discovered the injured manatee with gashes on its head and body in Marea del Portillo Bay, a far-flung inlet more than 850 km from capital Havana.

The multimillion-pound payment to Virginia Roberts Giuffre brings to an end a seven-month legal battle that has left Andrew’s reputation in tatters. 

The verdict could be a bellwether for many other Capitol riot cases. It could give Justice Department prosecutors more leverage in plea negotiations.

The deal with the European aerospace manufacturer aims to see commercial hydrogen-based aircraft flying by 2035.

Britain will phase out imports of Russian oil and oil products by the end of 2022 and consider banning its natural gas, in a move to punish Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.

“We will not give up and we will not lose,” Zelensky said in a speech to the UK Parliament as Ukraine was attacked by Russian forces.

Buses packed with people fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine left two embattled cities along safe corridors on Tuesday.

An evacuation of Sumy appeared to be underway on Tuesday but a third attempt to rescue people from Mariupol was faltering again.

By staying largely silent over Russia’s invasion, China may lose credibility as a global leader and damage ties with its most important economic partners.

The US dropped plans to try him after a Bush administration legal official concluded he had been tortured to a point he couldn’t stand trial.

Yoon Suk-yeol’s signature move is bold, angry and ambitious. The front-runner populist has vowed to abolish the Gender Equality Ministry.

The German woman who entered the ambulance to lay flowers on Warne’s body has been named as Barbara Woinke, a former travel writer who lives on Koh Samui.

There are Z stickers on the backs of cars, on T-shirts and billboards, and one Russian gymnast wore it on his uniform while competing against a Ukrainian.

Anti-Putin activists are turning to inventive, and at times outlandish, tactics in an attempt to puncture the blockade on independent information.

Ukrainian President Zelensky and his forces have shown modern military smarts in thwarting Russia’s advance so far. But to stay in the fight, they must now plan for a worst-case scenario.

Behind the battleground: Herald photographer Kate Geraghty and correspondent Anthony Galloway are in the war-torn city of Kharkiv.

The pair have known each other for some time. Trudeau met the monarch several times as a child because his father was one of Canada’s longest-serving PMs. 

Most of the Amazon rainforest has been losing its ability to recover from shocks, a new study has found.

In the ruins of Ukraine’s second-largest city, those who remain behind are determined to carry on. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report from Kharkiv.

The wave of sanctions for Russia has left world leaders scrambling for new sources of energy. Britain’s PM has warned oil and gas production may have to be increase in the short term.

Former UK prime minister Theresa May and Australia’s former leader Julia Gillard debated the rise of strongman politics in “a world of absolutism”.

Gallery: Ukraine-Russia crisis, March 8

Moscow’s offer to provide Ukrainian refugees escape routes to Russia and its close ally Belarus has outraged Ukrainian officials.

China is hedging its “everlasting friendship” with Moscow against the growing humanitarian crisis unfolding in Eastern Europe.

Shane Warne’s body will be taken to Bangkok tonight and will be flown home on Tuesday after an autopsy found he had died of natural causes.