Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie remained hospitalized on Saturday (Aug 13) with serious injuries a day after he was repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in...

Any Russian soldiers who shoots at or under the cover of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is a "special target" for security services, Ukraine has warned.In...

Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good" after the author was stabbed at an event in New York state.He was attacked on...

Satellite images appear to show extensive damage and several destroyed Russian warplanes at a Crimea airbase following explosions earlier this week.The Saky base in the...

Former US President Donald Trump has declined to answer questions as part of a New York state investigation into his family's business practices.Mr Trump had...

The war in Ukraine began with Crimea and must end with its liberation, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.Ukraine's president was speaking after a string of...

An unexploded World War Two bomb submerged in an Italian river has been revealed due to an extreme drought.The 450kg (1,000lb) bomb was found by...

China's thunderous response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit brought cross-Strait tensions to their highest level in years and sparked an outpouring of...

A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants held overnight, following three days of violence.Isolated weapons fire from both sides in the minutes before and just...

Israel has killed a second top militant from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, as the death toll continues to rise from air strikes in Gaza.Six...

Thai police have detained the owner of a nightclub in connection with a fire at the venue that killed 15 people, officers confirmed on Sunday...

Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a senior militant, and wounding dozens, according to Palestinian...

Ukraine's nuclear agency says Russian rockets have damaged part of a giant Russian-controlled nuclear power plant, but there has been no radiation leak.Enerhoatom said a...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Australian university students that China must not help Russia in its war against his homeland and remain at least neutral.Zelenskyy...

US authorities say they are investigating reports that the turbans of Sikh asylum seekers were confiscated after they were detained at the border.According to human...

Just over an hour after sunrise on 31 July, long-time al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri walked out onto the balcony of a downtown Kabul compound -...

The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed.He was killed in a...

There was already plenty of trouble to talk about when a major U.N. meeting on the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was originally supposed to happen...

Hundreds of firefighters in California are battling the largest wildfire to spread in the state so far this year.The McKinney Fire, which started in the...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered all civilians still living in parts of eastern Donetsk region under Ukrainian control to evacuate.Speaking during a late-night address...

The Biden administration likes to say Russia has become isolated internationally because of its invasion of Ukraine. Yet Moscow's top officials have hardly been cloistered...

Ukraine has called for the United Nations and the Red Cross to be allowed to investigate the deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of...

After arriving in Quebec, Pope Francis met on Wednesday with Canada's political leaders, a largely diplomatic pause from the main purpose of his trip -...

The US Justice Department is examining Donald Trump's actions in connection with efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, say US media.Federal prosecutors...

Ukraine has accused Moscow of waging a "gas war" against Europe and cutting supplies to inflict "terror" on people.Russian energy firm Gazprom announced it is...

Trade unions called Monday for the European Commission to impose maximum temperature limits for outdoor workers, after three people died while on shift in Madrid...

Moscow has charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with crimes against humanity, the head of Russia's investigative committee has said.Alexander Bastrykin told government...

The prospect of Rishi Sunak becoming the next British prime minister has sparked fervour in India, where some social media users are rooting for him...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of "barbarism" after a missile attack on the port of Odesa.A landmark deal to resume Ukraine's grain exports...

Liz Truss, the leading candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister, promised to scrap all remaining European Union laws that still apply in...

Ukraine and Russia have signed "mirror" deals which will allow Kyiv to resume exports of grain through the Black Sea.The agreement will allow millions of...

There is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said.There has been increasing unconfirmed media...

Australians admitted to hospitals from COVID-19 neared record levels on Wednesday as authorities urged businesses to let staff work from home and recommended people wear...

Heat records tumbled and firefighters faced new blazes as much of Western Europe baked in a gruelling heatwave.The UK, normally used to milder climates, saw...

Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine, with intense shelling of Sumy in the north, cluster bombs targeting Mykolaiv and a missile...

Western Europe faces more sweltering temperatures on Tuesday as a ferocious heatwave heads north.In France and the UK extreme heat warnings were issued while northern...

France has evacuated more than 16,000 people threatened by wildfires in the south-west, as fires also spread in Spain, Croatia and Greece.Authorities in France's Gironde,...

Aleksey Yukov has lost count of the bodies he's recovered in the Donbas over the past five months. He says he thinks it's more than...

Thousands of firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires in Portugal, Spain and France, as a heatwave shows no sign of easing.In northern Portugal, a pilot...

Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and southwestern France, in the grip of a heatwave that shows no sign of easing.In northern...

Ukraine says it is investigating more than 21,000 war crimes and crimes of aggression allegedly committed by Russia since the start of its invasion.Prosecutor General...

Floodwaters had inundated or were threatening the homes of 85,000 people around Sydney on Wednesday as rivers started to recede and the heavy rains tracked...

A man accused of opening fire on a Fourth of July parade near Chicago has been charged with seven counts of murder, officials say.Robert Crimo,...

About 50,000 people have been urged to evacuate their homes as floods hit Australia's largest city for the third time this year.Parts of Sydney have...

Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains triggered floods for the third time this year...

A gunman has killed three people and injured another four at a shopping mall in Denmark's capital Copenhagen.Police said the victims were two Danish 17-year-olds...

Ukraine's eastern city of Lysychansk is at the centre of competing claims, with both Russian and Ukrainian forces saying they are in control.Ukraine says its...

A Russian airstrike on residential areas killed at least 21 people early Friday near the Ukrainian port of Odesa, authorities reported, a day after the...

US president Joe Biden has said that women travelling for abortions will be protected by the federal government.Millions of women in the US lost the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to capture most of Ukraine, US intelligence agencies believe.Moscow's troops have been so weakened by combat, however, that US...

Nato member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland's membership of the alliance.It had initially opposed the Nordic countries' bids to join.Turkey was angered...

Up until now, the congressional committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol was missing a key piece of the puzzle - the testimony...

At least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.A fire official said 16 people, including...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders will urge Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to lift his veto over Finland and Sweden's bid to join the...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to urge delivery of more heavy weapons when he addresses the G7 group of wealthy nations later.It follows a...

Russia will send nuclear capable short-range missile systems to its ally Belarus in the coming months, President Vladimir Putin has said.He said Iskander-M systems "can...

Two people have been shot dead and 14 injured, some seriously, in a shooting at a nightclub and nearby streets in the centre of the...

The school district police chief who delayed launching an assault on a mass shooter who killed 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas,...

Ukraine is set to be approved as an EU candidate at a Brussels summit on Thursday, after the European Commission gave the green light.Ukraine applied...

Trump supporters threatened election officials and their families after they refused to quash his 2020 defeat, a congressional panel has heard.The speaker of Arizona's statehouse,...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson could this week lose two parliamentary seats that once illustrated his broad appeal, showing his declining popularity that could spur...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet political opponents on Tuesday after he and his allies lost its majority in the National Assembly.Mr Macron is now...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday rejected calls for him to publicly demand the United States drop its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and Australian...

Less than two months after he was re-elected president, Emmanuel Macron has lost control of the French National Assembly following a strong performance by a...

It's not even two months since Emmanuel Macron was convincingly re-elected as president but he is already in a crunch election that could prevent him...

An attack on passengers inside a San Francisco International Airport terminal on Friday (Jun 17) left three with cuts and scrapes before the suspect was...

The sanctions imposed by the West on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine are "mad and thoughtless", President Vladimir Putin has said.Speaking at a forum...

Ukrainians who want to leave cities under Russian occupation cannot do so without undergoing a terrifying process known as filtration. Phones are searched, social media...

Russian troops control about 80% of the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and have destroyed all three bridges leading out of it but Ukrainians...

A Republican congressman has lost his bid to cling on to his seat, after a furious backlash to his vote to impeach former US President...

Former US President Donald Trump has blasted the congressional inquiry into the Capitol riot as a "Kangaroo Court".In a 12-page statement, he said the investigation...

All bridges to the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk have now been destroyed, the local governor says.With the city effectively cut off, Serhiy Haidai says...

US campaigners have welcomed a potential cross-party deal on gun safety reforms but stressed the proposals do not go far enough."This is progress even if...

Russian shelling has caused a huge fire at a chemical plant in Ukraine's Severodonetsk city where "non-stop" fighting rages, the regional head says.Serhiy Haidai told...

Australia's new Labor-led government has reached a 555 million euro ($583.58 million)settlement over a controversial decision last year to scrap the French submarine deal, a...

Vladimir Putin's admiration for Peter the Great is well known but he now seems to have ideas of 'Great'-ness himself.He has openly compared himself to...

Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz del Mundo megachurch, has been sentenced in a Los Angeles court to 16 years and eight...

The World Health Organization is battling a barrage of disinformation alleging it is scheming to take over health policy in sovereign nations, as it tries...

Russia's UN ambassador has stormed out of a UN Security Council meeting after the European Council president blamed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for causing a...

An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its failure to take down a YouTuber's "relentless, racist, vilificatory,...

Russia will expand the list of targets it will attack in Ukraine if Western countries send long-range weapons to Kyiv, President Vladimir Putin says.The warning...

Nine coal miners have died and six remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in Colombia, the National Mining Agency (ANM) said.The...

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, joined other members of Britain’s royal family on Friday for a church service honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years...

There is shelling every day in Mykolaiv. The Russians are on the outskirts to the east and south, pummelling surrounding villages and forcing thousands to...

The US will send Ukraine more advanced rocket systems to help it defend itself, President Biden has announced.The weapons, long requested by Ukraine, are to...

Australia's center-left Labor Party secured enough seats Tuesday to hold an outright majority in the House as vote counting from an election 10 days ago...

European Union leaders have agreed on a plan to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports.The ban will only affect oil that arrives by...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the Kharkiv region, on the country's battered eastern front line.It was his first official trip outside the...

The actions — or more notably, the inaction — of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers have become the center of...

The leaders of France and Germany have urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to hold "direct [and] serious negotiations" with Ukraine's president, the German chancellor's office said.Emmanuel...

Police made the "wrong decision" by failing to storm a primary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas, as a gunman killed 19 children inside, the top...

Western powers sounded the alarm Thursday over leaked plans to dramatically expand China's security and economic reach in the South Pacific, in what one regional...

Nineteen children and two teachers have been killed in a shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.The children who died were aged between...

Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School...

Unilateral action on the Northern Ireland Protocol "will not work", a delegation of US politicians has told the UK government.Democratic congressman Dan Kildee urged Foreign...

A captured Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life in prison — the maximum...

Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as Australia's new leader and will fly immediately to an international summit.Mr Albanese's Labor Party defeated Scott Morrison's conservative...

With Russia claiming to have taken prisoner nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Mariupol steel plant, concerns grew about their fate as a Moscow-backed...

Australia's new leader has vowed to take the country in a new direction, with a big shift in climate policy.Anthony Albanese, who won Saturday's election...

Russia has declared victory in its months-long battle to conquer the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.The last fighters defending the city's Azovstal steel plant have...

New Zealand’s government said Thursday it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate...

Former President Donald Trump has urged celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz to declare victory in Tuesday's too-close-to-call Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary, even as votes show his...

A Trump-backed celebrity doctor's campaign to run as the next Republican senator for Pennsylvania has come down to a nail-biting conclusion.Mehmet Oz, a surgeon best...

Turkey's president has restated his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining Nato - just hours after they said they would seek membership.Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...

Finland officially announced its intention to join NATO on Sunday as Sweden's ruling party said it backed membership, paving the way for a joint application.Less...

Christchurch, El Paso, Pittsburgh and now Buffalo - all places where racially-motivated assailants, radicalised online, have taken their ideology to deadly extremes.The gunman in Buffalo,...

Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv for the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days...

Ukraine on Wednesday (May 11) reported pushing back Moscow's forces in a counterattack that could signal a shift in the momentum of the war and...

Ukraine’s top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south...

Vladimir Putin is preparing for a long war in Ukraine, with even victory in the east potentially not ending the conflict, US intelligence has warned.The...

France’s president warned Monday that decades could pass before Ukraine joins the European Union, and proposed a new political organization to bring together countries on...

It will take decades for Ukraine to be accepted into the European Union, France's Emmanuel Macron has said.In a speech to the EU's parliament in...

Colombia has sent an additional 2,000 troops and police to help contain a gang that has burned cars and threatened people as reprisal for the...

Russia's decision to cut off gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria is an "instrument of blackmail", the EU says.European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin met one-on-one Tuesday for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the United Nations said...

A New York judge found former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and set in motion $10,000 daily fines Monday for failing to adequately...

The village of Senkivka in Ukraine is situated at the nexus of the border crossing between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Once the site of festivals...

Emmanuel Macron has won five more years as France's president after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen, who nevertheless secured the far right's...

French voters are heading to the polls to decide whether to give centrist Emmanuel Macron five more years as president or replace him with far-right...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia's invasion of his country was just the beginning and that Moscow has designs on capturing other countries, after...

Russia is aiming to take full control of southern Ukraine as well as the eastern Donbas region, a senior Russian commander says.Maj Gen Rustam Minnekayev...

French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Wednesday clashed bitterly over relations with Russia and economic policy as they sought to...

The leaders of the United States, Britain and Canada pledged on Tuesday (Apr 19) to send more artillery weaponry to Ukraine in the face of...

Ukraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.The US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on...

Defenders of the besieged city of Mariupol will fight to the end against Russian forces, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says.The port city has not...

Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole...

At the base of a block of flats in Bucha, the sound of sawing echoes around the deserted communal garden.In one of the doorways a...

There are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week...

When the WNBA season tips off next month, one of the league's biggest stars will still be missing.The White House provided no updates on Monday...

Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a...

French voters are casting their ballots the opening round of a presidential race that could become a cliffhanger.Emmanuel Macron has a fight on his hands...

Viktoria Kovalenko remembers the moment clearly."There was an explosion, or some kind of shots. It deafened me. The back windscreen shattered. My husband shouted, 'Get...

The mayor of the besieged port city of Mariupol put the number of civilians killed there at more than 5,000 Wednesday, as Ukraine collected evidence...

The sound of Russian artillery grew louder as we drove to a Ukrainian frontline position in Luhansk. The rumble of shelling interspersed with the occasional...

As gruesome videos and photos of bodies emerge from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Kremlin-backed media are denouncing them as an elaborate hoax — a...

Western leaders are set announce a further set of sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, the US has said.White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the...

US President Joe Biden has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes as evidence emerges of atrocities allegedly committed by...

The retreat of Russian forces from Kyiv has revealed evidence of atrocities against civilians in the capital's suburbs, with mutilated bodies and mines strewn across...

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won a fourth term by a landslide in the country's general elections, near-complete results show.His right-wing Fidesz party...

A suburban avenue in Bucha became one of the first graveyards for Russia's hopes of encircling and entering Kyiv and then deposing the government of...

Seven humanitarian corridors to evacuate people from Ukraine's besieged regions are planned for Saturday (Apr 2), Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.The planned corridors...

Talks to stop the fighting in Ukraine resumed Friday, as another desperate attempt to rescue civilians from the encircled city of Mariupol failed and the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misled by advisers who are too scared to tell him how badly the war in Ukraine is going, the...

Donald Trump has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched an invasion of Ukraine last month, to reveal any compromising information he might have...

Russia has announced it will "drastically reduce" military combat operations in two key areas of Ukraine "to boost mutual trust" in peace talks.The decision to...

Amid the whining air raid sirens, the checkpoints, neighbourhood patrols, and enduring fears of Russian attacks - from the sea, air, or land - the...

The Australian and New Zealand prime ministers on Monday voiced concerns about the potential for a Chinese military presence on the Solomon Islands.A document leaked...

Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shadowed by an agent linked to a political assassination team for almost a year before he was shot dead,...

Several explosions hit the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, regional officials said.The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyi, said five people had been...