A Myanmar National Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport using only its rear wheels after the front landing gear failed to deploy.

Guterres made the comments after arriving in New Zealand, where he spoke to media alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Auckland.

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Three gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Pakistan's southwestern port city of Gwadar on Saturday, killing at least one guard and battling security forces inside, officials and the army said.

The Christian Democrats appear to be in no rush to change leaders despite their falling popularity.

A number of polls show Nigel Farage's new party is surging, while the Prime Minister's party has slumped.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has overcome the scandals that beset predecessor Jacob Zuma to win a majority of the popular vote.

Critics of the former vice-president say Biden is too much a creature of Washington's past to adequately deal with new challenges.

In one of the largest anti-Jewish street demonstrations in years, the far right have claimed it is not fair to ask Poland to compensate Holocaust victims.

Beijing security firm Knownsec Information Technology reported on Monday that Chinese organisations suffered an average of 800 million cyber attacks daily in 2018.