Vice Media filed for bankruptcy on Monday, closing out a years-long decline for the edgy “punk rock” news giant once valued at an incredible $US5.7 billion ($8.5 billion).

Prince Harry’s unofficial biographer on Monday denied having a “vested interest” in helping him, as he gave evidence at a trial considering unlawful information-gathering claims against a British tabloid publisher.

No clear winner emerged from Sunday’s presidential election in Turkey. The race between the incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu will now be decided in a runoff in two weeks.

Off-year elections Tuesday in Kentucky and Pennsylvania could send early signals about the mood of voters ahead of next year’s races for the White House and Congress. (May 15)

Here’s the latest for Monday, May 15: Homeland security sees drop in people seeking to enter US from Mexico; Crews rescue people trapped by cyclone flood waters; Biden attends granddaughter’s college graduation; Pets get new homes to escape Ukraine war…

A fire at a four-storey hostel in New Zealand that also houses deportees from Australia has claimed the lives of at least six people.

Up to 10 people have died, and up to 30 are believed to be unaccounted for after a fire broke out at a hostel in Wellington overnight.

Emergency crews, including 20 fire trucks, responded to calls of a blaze on the top floor of the four-storey Loafer…

At least three people have died, and two police officers injured in a mass shooting in the US state of New Mexico.

Police were involved in a shooting with the suspect who they killed at the scene in the city of Farmington in the state’s northwest.

Dozens of people are missing and at least six people have been confirmed dead after a devastating fire tore through a New Zealand hostel.