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The US saw another series of mass shootings over the weekend. CNN's Natasha Chen has the latest.

Banished for over a decade, earmarks are marking a sudden and robust return in Congress. And the hundreds of requests from lawmakers go beyond the roads, bridges and research grants that received federal funding in the past. (May 24)

Passengers who were aboard a Ryanair flight carrying a wanted Belarusian opposition activist to Lithuania describes what happened during the flight, after it was forced by Belarus to land in Minsk. The plane was diverted from its Athens-to-Vilnius route, ostensibly over a security scare.

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro leads a motorbike rally through Rio de Janeiro as huge crowds gather to cheer him on, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Veteran journalist Martin Bashir has said he "never wanted to harm" Princess Diana with his now disgraced BBC Panorama interview, telling the Sunday Times newspaper, "I don't believe we did." In the 1995 world exclusive interview, Diana confirmed Prince Charles' relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles and described in frank detail how she believed royal life had made her bulimic.

Stresa (Italy) (AFP) – A helicopter flies over the area in northern Italy where a cable car accident killed eight people, and left another two are seriously injured. The accident occurred in the resort town of Stresa on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the Piedmont region, a spokesman told AFP.

Fareed takes a look at why Russia has been building up military might on its huge Arctic coastline.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria says now that Israel is now the economic and military superpower in the Middle East, Israeli leaders have no practical reason to make a deal with Palestinians … but do have a moral one.

Goma (DR Congo) (AFP) – A river of boiling lava came to a halt on the outskirts of Goma, sparing the city in eastern DR Congo from disaster after the nighttime eruption of Mount Nyiragongo sent thousands of terrified residents fleeing in panic.

Reporter Gregory Pratt, president of the Chicago Tribune's guild, says Friday's vote to let Alden Global Capital take over Tribune Publishing was "a very dark day for journalism." He says his colleagues will continue to advocate for local ownership and civic minded journalism.

Politicians in Poland along with people living in the south-west of the country have criticised a ruling by the European Court of Justice to close one of the nation's biggest lignite coal mines. Turów is on the border of Czechia and Germany and it was the Czech government that took legal action to close the mine.

Rotterdam (Netherlands) (AFP) – The singer for Italy's Eurovision Song Contest winning rockers Maneskin will take a voluntary drug test after denying speculation that he was snorting cocaine during the broadcast.