US President Joe Biden has capped a half-century political career with a final, foreboding Oval Office speech.

Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents have been made public.

Dangerously high winds were expected to return to Los Angeles, jeopardizing efforts to extinguish two massive wildfires that have destroyed thousands of buildings and claimed the lives of at least two dozen people.

Negotiators will meet in Doha seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza after US President Joe Biden said a ceasefire was on "the brink" of coming to fruition.