The New Zealand Government has declared a nationwide state of emergency as Cyclone 'Gabrielle' passes through the country, causing flooding and landslides.

The 43-year-old gunman who killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University had no apparent connection to the campus, police said Tuesday as they searched for a motive for shootings that terrified the community for hours.

Dr. Toyoda was the son of the company’s founder and the father of current president and CEO, Akio Toyoda.

Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Monday, broadcaster CNN Turk reported, a week after a major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria killing more than 33,000 people.

The body of the Sri Lankan victim from the earthquake that hit Turkey has been found by rescue teams and the victim has been identified by her daughter.

The death toll in Turkey and Syria from the quake has surpassed 28,000, and hope of finding many more survivors is fading despite some miraculous rescues.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced this week to cancel a trip to Davos by an escalating energy crisis that is inflicting rolling blackouts on the continent's most developed economy.

Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were being trapped for 122 hours following the region's deadliest quake in two decades, authorities said on Saturday.

A tense situation was reported at the Polduwa Junction near Parliament a short while ago between the Police and a group of Buddhist monks.