Also on Saturday, two women – ages 60 and 42 – were killed in two Russian shelling attacks in the city of Beryslav in Ukraine’s partly occupied Kherson region.

Some parts of the Western United States got a spectacular show, while viewers on the East Coast were prepared to see less of the event – close to a quarter eclipse.

New Zealanders voted for change after six years of a liberal government led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern, who resigned in January.