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New Zealand's election has failed to deliver a clear winner, with neither major party claiming victory.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's National Party has won the most seats, with both National and Labour securing around 29 per cent of the vote.
Under New Zealand's voting system, parties often need to form coalitions to govern.
National - and its partners ACT and New Zealand First - are projected to hold 67 seats, just one more than needed for a majority.
Minor parties including the Greens, Te Pāti Māori and the Opportunity Party have also won seats.
Mr Luxon says the result remains uncertain.
"Now look friends, tonight New Zealand has voted and it looks like certainly an MMP (Mixed-member proportional) special. It is heartening to see on the numbers so far National is once again the largest party in parliament and we have a pathway to forming the next government. But I have to tell you right now, it is too close to call."
Around 400,000 special votes are still to be counted, with the final result not expected until November 27.
Six people are dead and at least 15 wounded, after a shooting in Poland's second biggest city, Krakow.
Police say a male Polish citizen drove a car onto Krakow's Main Market Square and began shooting at random people.
Katarzyna Cislo, from Krakow Police, says police officers are among the wounded.
"After the shooting, the driver tried to drive away but he was stopped by the police at the intersection of two nearby streets. He opened fire on the police officers who responded and managed to shoot him. Wounded, he was arrested and taken to one of Krakow’s hospitals."
Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk , called the incident "a tragic shooting" and says police are investigating all the circumstances.
A man has been arrested in South Australia for allegedly stalking and harassing a member of the state's parliament.
The 33-year-old has been ordered to appear at the Christies Beach Magistrates Court in December, on charges he posted on social media numerous times about lower house speaker Nat Cook.
Police allege the posts were in breach of a stalking caution issued to him earlier this year.
He has now been issued an intervention order which enables police to take further action if the order is breached.
Pope Leo XIV has urged an estimated 30,000 people gathered in Paysandú, Uruguay, to build bridges of fraternity and faith during his first Mass in South America.
The Pope used the region’s cherished herbal tea, mate, as a symbol of unity and shared identity; encouraging Uruguayans to pass on the Catholic faith to future generations.
Despite rain and strong winds, pilgrims from Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil attended the service.
Some attendees praised the pope's message of connection, peace and care for vulnerable people, saying it resonated beyond practicing Catholics, offering a sense of community and hope in an increasingly troubled world.
The pope is on a three-country tour of Latin America, including Argentina and Peru - his first overseas trip since his lung cancer surgery last month.
China has unveiled what it claims are the world's first bionic humanoid robot news anchors.
Named Xinyan and Xinyu, the life-sized robots can blink, move their eyes and deliver the news using artificial intelligence.
"Audience, journalists, delivering the world's first news report presented by bionic humanoid robot anchors in this forum."
News outlets around the globe are busy trialling artificial intelligence, with some radio networks - including in Australia - already using bot voices to deliver bulletins.
But the Vice President of Xinhua says harnessing AI is about empowering, not replacing journalists.
Cricket Australia is standing by their findings on the so-called sandpapergate scandal, after Usman Khawaja claimed the whole team knew about the ball-tampering plot.
An official investigation determined only David Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft knew of the idea to use sandpaper in the third Test.
Other players including bowlers Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon distanced themselves from the incident, insisting they had no knowledge of a foreign substance being taken on the field.
Khawaja's allegations are contained in his new memoir, eight years on from the ball-tampering incident in 2018.
