New Zealand facing weeks of uncertainty with election ‘too close to call’

Regulator’s initial ruling says algorithm ‘can be harmful’ and led young and vulnerable viewers ‘down rabbit holes they can’t easily escape’

All affected planes land safely after apparently continued and coordinated effort to cause chaos for travellers

Far-right politician is battling to maintain political relevance after losing the presidential election last month

Former liberation movement’s share of national vote almost 14 percentage points below 2021 result

YouGov survey finds support for tree planting and emissions taxes but opposition to air travel and fuel levies

Government claims removal of former residents of housing complex in Helsingør is unrelated to their ethnicity

Further south this week, severe thunderstorms affected midterms voting in Florida, Oklahoma and Colorado

Asian and European markets follow Wall Street with sharp fall as FTSE down 1.9%

Santiago Peña’s rightwing administration had authorised Ueno Bank to drastically expand operations before collapse

Three suitcases’ worth of the spiders were on their way to Germany, where they could fetch an estimated €1.5m

Philippine official says there are ‘signs that point to Thomas Markle Jr’s involvement in crime’, but he’s not yet being treated as a suspect

New report finds that record label Ador stripped child protections from group’s contracts when they were minors

In the Netherlands many felt the move, while welcome, was mishandled and exclusionary, mirroring past inequality

Older voters praised for helping tip balance in leftwing president’s favour against far-right Flávio Bolsonaro in runoff