News brief: Big stories of the day

Voting on ninety-five Lok Sabha seats across 11 states is underway in the second phase of the 2019 general elections.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the test-firing of a new type of "tactical guided weapon," the country's state media reported on Thursday.

Indonesia's ruling coalition, which backs President Joko Widodo, is on course to win more than half the votes in an election for the national parliament, based on a count of more than 60 per cent of ballots cast on Wednesday, two pollsters said.

Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

Attorney General William Barr plans on Thursday morning to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 USelection and contacts between Moscow and President Donald Trump's campaign, the Justice Department said on Monday.