Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie onstage in New York has been found guilty of attempted murder.

Airlines have modified flight paths between NZ and Australia after China notified Australia it would hold live-fire exercises off the New South Wales coast in international waters, a rare event.

Israel has braced for the return of the bodies of infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack.

Pilots of a jet that flipped upside down upon landing in Toronto are experienced and familiar with flying in wintry conditions, the airline's CEO says.

Most passengers hospitalised after a plane flipped after landing in Toronto have been released, as the jet's black boxes are recovered.

European leaders have called for higher spending to ramp up the continent's defence capabilities but remained split on the idea of deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine to back up any peace deal.