Today's World News covering, Africa, Europe, Middle East

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will sit down for an official bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday rather than an informal pull-aside meeting.

North Korea has announced that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on the orders of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, according to state media.

Forty-one states have defied the Trump administration's request for private voter information, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states.

Three car bombings have struck Damascus, according to state media, killing at least eight people and injuring a dozen others in one of the blasts, in the biggest such attack in the Syrian capital since March.

US President Donald Trump has defended his use of social media in a series of tweets, following a row over comments he made about two MSNBC TV presenters.

Pope Francis has decided to replace a conservative cardinal who openly questioned the pontiff's attempts to create a more inclusive church.

President Donald Trump on today July 1  fired off another volley in his escalating feud with the US media, aiming a Twitter tirade at CNN, NBC and a morning show host he taunted as “dumb as a rock.”

Film critic Barry Norman has died aged 83, his family says.

French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen is facing a formal investigation after being charged over an alleged European Parliament funding scandal, the BBC reported Friday.

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski say President Trump and his White House used the possibility of a hit piece in the National Enquirer to threaten them and change their news coverage.

A gunman has opened fire inside a hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, injuring several people, police say.