The Queen will meet US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden next week, Buckingham Palace has said.
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at a newly agreed coalition which looks set to remove him from power after 12 years as prime minister.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved China's Sinovac Covid vaccine for emergency use.
Peru has more than doubled its Covid death toll following a review, making it the country with the world's highest death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a proposed new unity government would be "a danger for the security" of the country.
China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab.
The president of Belarus has said his critics are "strangling" his country and waging "hybrid warfare".
US President Joe Biden has ordered intelligence agencies to investigate the emergence of Covid-19, amid growing controversy about the virus's origins.
A gunman has opened fire in a commuter train yard in California, killing "multiple" people, police say.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.