Milan fashion designers are taking a step back as they consider the import of presenting their first collections of the 2020s.

A first-term lawmaker whose father was Malta’s president has been chosen to be the country’s prime minister.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in Saudi Arabia for talks, amid heightened tensions in the region.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that he wants the hallmark of his new left-wing coalition government to be the “dialogue” needed to tackle the Catalan separatist conflict.

The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has said the state will not accept new refugees under the US government’s resettlement programme.

France is making it clear that it does not want to be shackled to the tight deadline British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to impose on the upcoming European-UK free trade talks.

• Deaths in Alabama, Lousiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa
• Gulf coast states report widespread power outages

Authorities in southern India have demolished two luxury lakeside apartment complexes that were built in violation of environmental rules.

An employee of Australian media organisation News Corp has lashed out at the company for “irresponsible” coverage of the current bushfires engulfing parts of the country.

Sweden has seen a 4% drop in the number of people flying via its airports, a rare decrease in recent years for a European country.