The move sandwiches China between the world’s first and third-largest economies after the US said it would not leave Australia to face Beijing alone. 

Democrats and Republicans put aside their bitter differences to pass a vast bill designed to get America to out-compete China economically and technologically.

He was an unlikely presidential candidate, a rural teacher who for the past 25 years has seen his students struggle in crumbling schools where his colleagues also cook and sweep floors.

“This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Parliament.

Students voted to remove a portrait of Her Majesty alleging it represented “colonialism”.

The US Vice-President readily admits she can’t fix the root causes of Central American migration to the US “in two days”.

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Four days after the birth of her daughter Lilibet, the Duchess’ first book The Bench, a rhyming tribute to fathers, has received tough reviews

Asked what he would do if the UK government postponed lifting the lockdown, the composer replied: “We will say: ‘come to the theatre and arrest us’.”

Asked how much worse it could have been if he hadn’t paid, Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount told the Senate: “That’s an unknown we probably don’t want to know.”

A source leaked tax data to ProPublica on the wealthiest people in the US, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.

That this is the third time Morrison has been invited to the G7 stands as a testament that Australia’s warnings on China are being heard.

Prosecutors said Pearse and his co-conspirators used a practice called “auto-subscribing” to bilk unwitting customers for unsolicited messages about celebrity gossip, horoscopes, jokes, love tips and trivia.

The judge said there was evidence the aeroplane was hit by an outside explosion caused by a Russian-made Buk missile.

The rejection of Mladic’s appeals closed a grim chapter in European history that included the continent’s first genocide since World War II.

In a video circulating on social media, the French President reaches out his hand to greet a man in a small crowd of onlookers before he is slapped in the face.

Her body was found in a bag in woodland in the county of Kent one week after she vanished in a case that outraged Britain.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi promises to ramp up vaccine procurement to try to vaccinate 75 per cent of Indians sooner than in two years.

The Kangs are considering moving to Canada in the hopes of reuniting with their little boy after 15 months apart.

Bdelloid rotifers may be the toughest, tiniest animal you’ve never heard of, but scientists say they can survive anything.

Authorities said a young man was arrested in the parking lot of a nearby mall after the incident on Sunday night in the Ontario city of London.

Already letters from the European Commission in English are going unanswered.

Carroll - who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her two decades ago - sued him for defamation over his insulting denials while president.

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The Rajabi family lives in the basement, third floor and part of the second. The Tanami family lives on the first floor and rest of the second.

The British PM has defended a cricketer suspended over historic racist tweets and refused to condemn fans who boo the national soccer team for taking the knee.

Nearly 76 per cent of adults in the UK have had at least one shot of vaccines by AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna, and 52 per cent two doses. 

Recovering the funds reflects what US officials say is an increasingly aggressive approach to deal with a ransomware threat that in the last month has targeted critical industries around the world.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s controversial decision delighted advocacy groups but defied the wishes of many top experts in the field.

The World Health Organisation says Australia and other countries face a “genuine dilemma” about how to move away from their zero-COVID approach and are now more at risk than other countries as a result of their elimination strategies.

An express train crashed into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.

Jeff Bezos said on Monday that he and his brother Mark would fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin.

The Prime Minister will have to clear a COVID-19 test on arrival at Changi airport on Thursday before a fly-in-fly-out visit to the city-state in lockdown.

For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.

The campaign for the midterm elections has been one of the bloodiest in recent history: 97 politicians had been killed and 935 attacked.

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The author of the 1991 feminist classic The Beauty Myth had shared outlandish misinformation about the COVID vaccine.

The Red Army soldier flattened the electric fence of the Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank, found “skeletons everywhere” and kept going.

Prince Harry now sits in sixth place, with his first child Archie in seventh. Prince Andrew, meanwhile, has been pushed down to ninth in line. 

Naftali Bennett, the nationalist set to replace Netanyahu, called on Israel’s longest-serving leader not to leave “scorched earth” behind.

In a remote corner of East Timor, a scandal of enormous proportions has shaken an almost universally Catholic country and brought powerful forces into play.

British TV presenter Piers Morgan, who had clashed with the couple, declined to comment on Lilibeth ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth in California.

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.”

The couple named the baby Lilibet ‘Lili’ as a tribute to her great-grandmother, the Queen.

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The US will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said on Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its eff...

Scientists have employed microbes to remove grime that stained a number of Michelangelo masterpieces for 500 years.

Trump joined a chorus of Republican politicians who are criticising Fauci for asking Americans to wear masks to guard against the virus.

The British public appears to have rejected a push by their farmers to paint Australian meat as substandard, as a new survey showed Australia was the first choice for Brits seeking to increase trade post-Brexit. 

Facing a demographic crisis of its own invention, China scrambles to turn back the clock. But is it too late?