Image copyright Getty Images State officials in Australia have apologised for their failures over the handling of a huge Covid-19 outbreak on the Ruby Princess cruise ship.
Last week, an inquiry found New South Wales health authorities made "serious mistakes" in allowing about 2,650 passengers to disembark when the ship docked in Sydney in March.
Those people were not tested for the virus, despite suspected cases aboard.
The ship was ultimately linked
Image copyright Reuters The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has postponed the country's general election by a month amid a spike in coronavirus cases.
The vote was due to take place on 19 September but will now be held on 17 October instead.
Ms Ardern said on Monday that the new date would allow parties "to plan around the range of circumstances we will be campaigning under".
Earlier this week, the country's largest city went back into lockdown.
"This decision gives all
Image copyright Reuters Speaker Nancy Pelosi will call on the House of Representatives to return to session in the coming days to vote on a bill to protect the US Postal Service.
In a letter released on Sunday, Ms Pelosi accused President Trump of a "campaign to sabotage the election".
It comes after the USPS warned that millions of mail ballots may not arrive in time to be counted in the election.
Critics blamed the new USPS head - a loyal supporter of the president - for a slowdown in deliveries.
A record
Nine firefighters and paramedic Sahar Fares were the first on the scene when a large fire was reported at Beirut's Warehouse 12, on the city's northern Mediterranean coast.
It should've been the happiest day of their lives. Instead, it was the worst.
Mirwais and Rehana's wedding in Afghanistan's capital Kabul last year was targeted by an IS suicide bomber, killing more than 90 of their guests. The couple lost close family members and friends, and the attack took a heavy toll on their mental health.
This week marks the anniversary of the attack. For the first time
It's convention season in the US election, but this year won't be like previous ones.
Image copyright AFP "We were left in utter shock. She did nothing wrong - my sister is not a criminal," says Rahma al-Adham, talking of her younger sibling, a social media influencer in Egypt.
Mawada, a 22-year-old university student, was last month sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of violating Egyptian family values .
She was arrested in May after publishing videos on TikTok and
Image copyright Fritz-Kola The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Mirco Wiegert, co-founder and boss of soft drinks company Fritz-Kola.
Students Mirco Wiegert and Lorenz Hampl had decided to set up their own cola company, but there was a catch - they had no idea how to make the fizzy drink.
With the confidence of youth not letting that inconvenient fact put them
Crowds gathered in the Spanish capital on Sunday to protest against the mandatory use of face masks.
Image copyright Getty Images Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have inaugurated direct telephone services between their countries following their agreement last week to normalise relations.
The countries' foreign ministers called each other and "exchanged greetings following the historic peace accord", a statement said.
The US-brokered deal was announced by President Donald Trump on Thursday.
It is only the third Israeli-Arab peace treaty in the Middle East.
The international community has