The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union was in disarray on Sunday as Prime Minister Theresa May faced a possible plot by ministers to topple her and parliament prepared to grab control of Brexit from the government.

Thai voters flocked to the polls on Sunday for the first election since a 2014 coup, and an exit poll indicated the populist party linked to exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra would win the most seats, but not enough to form a government.

Mozambique has recorded more deaths from a cyclone and floods around southern Africa, a government minister said on Sunday, with hundreds left in camps after homes were destroyed.

Thousands gathered in New Zealand's cities on Sunday to protest racism and remember the 50 Muslims killed by a gunman in Christchurch and as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a national remembrance service to be held later this week.

Rescue services had airlifted 397 people to safety from a luxury cruise liner with engine trouble off the coast of Norway by Sunday morning and began towing the vessel to a nearby port.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has enjoyed soaring approval ratings in his first few months in power, got a rare taste of public animosity on Saturday when he was booed at the inauguration of a baseball stadium in Mexico City.

More than 130 people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday, the United Nations said, as a delegation visited the country.

Record floodwaters that submerged vast stretches of Nebraska and Iowa farmland along America’s longest river reached a new crest on Friday at the waterfront city of St Joseph, Missouri, forcing chaotic evacuations of thousands from low-lying areas.

The US attorney general’s summary of a special counsel report on an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign co-ordinated with Moscow was not being delivered yesterday to lawmakers,

Former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said the filing of the “communication” against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Criminal Court (ICC) was a message to Filipinos that acts of impunity should not be tolerated.

The Pakistani president and prime minister in their separate messages on Pakistan Day yesterday, stressed the need to achieve the goal of a welfare state as envisaged by the country’s founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah.

Police and demonstrators yesterday clashed sporadically in Paris and other French cities as “yellow vest” protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s government took place for a 19th consecutive weekend.