Prince Harry and Meghan have met with a top UN official during the world body's biggest annual gathering.

They're already putting Angela Merkel out to pasture at the Tussauds waxworks in Berlin, decking her out in clothes to go hiking, which the chancellor says she wants to do more of when she's retired.

Fifteen-year-old motorcyclist Dean Berta Vinales has died following a crash at a World Superbike Championship race in Jerez, Spain.

Authorities have closed La Palma's airport as a new vent opened in an erupting volcano, spreading more ash across the island.

A Hong Kong pro-democracy group, which held annual vigils to remember the victims of China's military during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, has voted to disband during a crackdown on political activism in the semi-autonomous city.

Two Canadians have returned home from China after being released from prison where they were held on alleged spying charges.

One of the founders of the Taliban has said that the group will resume executions and amputations as punishment, as witnesses have described a dead body being hung in a busy city centre.

The Hofbrauhaus in the heart of Munich is a huge building dedicated to the art of beer.

Three more towns have been evacuated and firefighters have been forced to retreat amid intensifying volcanic explosions on the island of La Palma in the Canaries.

After 16 years of Angela Merkel in the chancellorship, Germany can be said to value leaders who are regarded as strong and steady.