Powerful storms have moved through the US Midwest on Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and nearly a million without power, officials said.
The casualties include a 4-year-old child who died after a tree fell on his home in Geneva Township in Indiana, according to Jennings County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Cody Low.
Meanwhile, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stated that one person died after flooding obstructed first responders from reaching the individual in Roseville.
Local media also reported that one person died in a home explosion and fire that occurred after storms moved through Portage, Indiana. Police said the cause of the explosion remained under investigation.
Over 800,000 electricity customers across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky were without power as of midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, the poweroutage.us website showed.
"Even after the storms exit the state, flooding will remain a serious concern," Ohio's governor noted.
Four crew members and two rescuers have been killed in an attack by Houthis on a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday, Yemen's transport ministry said, while the US military said it struck a container ship attempting to sail toward an Iranian port.
China's strongest typhoon this year lashed wide swathes of the country, battering the capital with bouts of intense rain that flooded key roads and stranded vehicles, after setting new rainfall records in central and eastern provinces.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he secretly switched planes in Turkey last month at the direction of the US Secret Service, but that the plane he ultimately flew on was still more vulnerable than Air Force One.
At least 44 people died after a passenger ferry capsized in a lake in Zimbabwe on Tuesday, police said, roughly trebling an earlier estimate of the death count after more bodies were found.
Indonesian authorities rescued 172 people on Wednesday after a ferry travelling from the tourist island of Bali caught fire in waters off Lombok, officials said,as the search continued for any other missing passengers.