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Donald Trump says "a lot of great people" want to join his Board of Peace - but some world leaders are clearly worried the controversial initiative could undermine the United Nations.

Donald Trump's grandstanding on Greenland betrays a disdain for NATO that means this crisis for the alliance is far from over despite his sudden climbdown.

A gunman is reported to be at large in an Australian town following shootings that killed three people and wounded one.

Rescue efforts are under way to free people buried under rubble after landslides hit a campsite and house in New Zealand.

A former police officer has been acquitted of criminal child-endangerment charges related to his role in the flawed law enforcement response to the 2022 Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. 

A commuter train has crashed into a construction crane in southeastern Spain, the fourth rail incident in the space of a week.

European governments and their diplomats here in Washington are as relieved as they are exasperated by this extraordinary Greenland show and latest act which played out in the Swiss Alps over the past 24 hours.

The world order is in the "midst of a rupture", leaders have warned - telling how international law is being "trampled underfoot" and "imperial ambitions are resurfacing".

US troops have transferred 150 Islamic State (IS) prisoners from Syria to Iraq under plans that could see 7,000 detainees moved across the border.

Elon Musk has said he could buy Ryanair amid an ongoing public spat with the budget airline's boss Michael O'Leary.