World News Update, what you need to know

Australian director George Miller's film Mad Max: Fury Road has won three awards at the British Academy Film Awards in London.

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WELLINGTON - Aftershocks have rattled Christchurch in the wake of a 5.7-magnitude quake that shook the city almost five years on from the devastating tremor that killed 185 people and caused widespread destruction.

LONDON - A British rock band and their manager have died after the car they were travelling in plunged more into a canal in Sweden.

WASHINGTON - Republican politicians and presidential candidates look set to block a move by President Barack Obama to fill the seat left by the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court bench.

BEIRUT - The Turkish army has shelled Kurdish militia in northern Syria for a second day, while Russia made clear it would continue bombing Syrian rebel targets, raising doubts that a planned ceasefire will bring much relief.

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Russia to stop bombing "moderate" rebels in Syria in support of its ally Bashar al-Assad, a campaign seen in the West as a major obstacle to latest efforts to end the war.

MEXICO CITY - Pope Francis has taken a swipe at Mexico's rich and corrupt elite while celebrating Mass in front of hundreds of thousands in one of the country's poorest and most dangerous cities.