Chelsea Mes

The New Zealand government expects the cost from the devastating cyclone that ravaged the country’s North Island this week to be in the “multi-billions,” Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an interview with local media Sunday.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will take the national carrier’s first direct flight later this month from Auckland to New York, where she will attend the UN General Assembly.

Democrat and educator Carolyn Bourdeaux beat Republican emergency-room doctor Rich McCormick in the Georgia House race to succeed retiring GOP Representative Rob Woodall, the Associated Press projects.

Australia reported an outbreak of H7N7 bird flu at a free-range egg farm in the state of Victoria.

President Trump had dinner with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and board member Peter Thiel during Zuckerberg’s October visit to Washington, NBC reported, the second meeting between Trump and the Facebook founder in recent months.

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will reverse a promise to hold a vote on same-sex marriage this year and delay the plebiscite to 2017, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, without saying where it got the information.