Australia’s neighbour has declared a state of calamity as COVID, dengue fever and cholera threaten to spread in evacuation centres after floods drowned Dili.

Demand for Pfizer is so hot worldwide that the drug giant won’t be able to dispatch the extra 20 million doses until the final quarter of this year.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, quoting an anonymous Foreign Ministry official, suggested Seoul may pay off Iran’s United Nations debts.

“Homesick” Brian Robson spent time in jail in Australia before his daring “crate escape”.

Local authorities have speculated that the bodies could be the remains of some of the foreigners taken hostage by extremists

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More than 50 police officers had been injured over several nights of disorder between Nationalists and Loyalists, reportedly involving children as young as 13.

Police records show police arrested a man for trespassing on the sprawling property on Christmas Eve - but he was later released.

While Benjamin Netanyahu’s trials may run for months or even years, they seem as unlikely to shift the political dial as Donald Trump’s impeachment trials.

Biden scrapped Trump’s ‘America First’ policy - but not when it comes to the vaccine glut US will have by the middle of May.

Globally, the number of confirmed cases has exceeded 133.6 million, causing nearly 2.9 million deaths. 

Rebecca Roberts gave birth to twins conceived three weeks apart.

Meanwhile, raw material shortage could delay the Novovax alternative until late this year.

A gunman who killed five people including a prominent doctor in South Carolina was former NFL player Phillip Adams, according to police.

Police in Sri Lanka arrested the reigning Mrs World for pulling the crown off the head of the winner of a Mrs Sri Lanka beauty pageant and allegedly causing injuries.

The US President says the fact 100 Americans die each day by firearms is a “blemish on the character of our nation”.

A medical expert has testified that George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind him and his face jammed against the pavement.

More than 140 people have died and scores more are missing as rain continued to pound Indonesian islands.

The police had to close roads into the nearby Protestant area as crowds from each divide attacked each other.

A new paper points to large financial donations by a country where ‘torture and repression is a stock in trade’.

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A hotel quarantine security guard in Auckland has tested positive for COVID-19, days after complaining of a sore throat.

Pakistani rights groups are criticising Prime Minister Imran Khan after he claimed that wearing traditional Islamic veil will protect women from sexual assault and not lead men into temptation.

The Biden administration has announced it would provide $US235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding cut off by former president Donald Trump.

The Myanmar embassy in London was “stormed” and seized by allies of the nation’s new military regime, the ambassador has alleged.

The three powerful leaders entered a big room in front of cameras for high level discussions - but there were only two chairs. Many believe it was a deliberate snub by Turkish President Recep Erdogan to the female President of the European Commission...

Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister says it’s a “bloody outrage” that ordinary citizens have to pay around $10,000 to return to the country.

Greenland’s main opposition party, which campaign heavily against an Australian company’s mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an earl...

Australia’s vaccine rollout has been propped up by doses manufactured in Britain rather than from factories in Europe as had been widely believed.

In a separate decision, the European Medicines Agency said it would list the blood clots as a “very rare” side effect of the vaccine.

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has scientists baffled and thrilled.

Three veteran pro-democracy protesters, including well-known publisher Jimmy Lai, pleaded guilty over an unauthorised rally.

The vaccine rollout in Papua New Guinea will require overcoming huge logistical hurdles. But there’s a second looming health crisis.

The Philippines is considering expelling a Chinese diplomatic spokesman in Manila in the latest twist of a new dispute over the South China Sea.

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Fatalities climbed above 4000 in a day on Tuesday for the first time, taking the pandemic total to nearly 337,000.

One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months.

Reporters drank lustily from the fire hose of leaks that emanated from the West Wing during the last four years. What do they do now?

The downing happened as Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on US troops in Iraq in retaliation for a US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general.

When I return, I want to embrace both my family and the land. To stand and once again absorb my tūrangawaewae as a woman who has grown and ultimately found herself in this city.

Dutch police have arrested a suspect in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blamed tensions in Europe for Australia missing its target of vaccinating four million Australians by the end of March, and announced he would seek formal approval from AstraZeneca for the release of the blocked vacc...

“It is becoming more and more difficult to affirm that there isn’t a cause-and-effect relationship,” the EMA’s head of health threats and vaccine strategy said.

The recurring avalanche of falsehoods has implications not only for the world’s pandemic response but for the next “infodemic”.

The State Department made clear the US would expect to be joined by its allies if it were to boycott the games, scheduled for next February.

China has already proved how effectively it can mobilise against the coronavirus. Now it has set itself a new goal.

The World Health Organisation says people should not be required to prove they have been vaccinated in order to travel overseas, warning that vaccine passports would isolate poorer countries.

Officers charged demonstrators after they tried to breach a police cordon outside parliament, where a protest was being held about ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

Police said they detained nine people who allegedly “breached public order”, including Navalny’s physician Dr Anastasia Vasilyeva.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is speeding up aid for affected areas as rescuers battled heavy rain to dig through debris.