The deal with the Solomon Islands would give Beijing a base for its navy less than 2000 kilometres from Australia’s coast.

It represents a major escalation in the North’s development of weapons potentially able to deliver nuclear warheads anywhere in the United States.

This is the first time NATO nations have sent supplies to Ukraine specifically to counter weapons of mass destruction amid rising fears that Moscow could use them.

Albright’s experience as a refugee prompted her to push for the US to be a superpower that used its clout to stop the genocide in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Poison gas conjures up the ghost horrors of WWI. But it’s been used in battle since. And Western leaders are warning that Russia may use it soon in Ukraine. What would that mean?

In the pitched political battles over freedom of choice in school cafeterias, New York’s “vegan-ish” mayor has triggered a nationwide furore over the sugary drink.

In a speech at a state dinner in the former British colony, William acknowledged slavery “should never have happened”. 

The bride wore a couture corseted coat dress in lilac duchess satin designed by Vivienne Westwood, one of the many celebrities who support Assange.

If this fight has taught us anything, it’s that Ukraine shouldn’t become more like the West.

Ukrainians mourn loved ones, clear up rubble and prepare for the next Russian attack.

The town of Rafah on the border of Israel and Egypt, has a history stretching back thousands of years to the time of the pharaohs. It began as settlement around an oasis at the point where the Sinai meets the Gaza Strip. In 1906, under British pressu...

NATO will send equipment to Ukraine to help the war-torn nation defend its population against potential Russian chemical weapon attacks.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is already in Ukraine gathering evidence for a war crimes case against the Russian President and his troops.

Putin, responding to Western sanctions that have hit Russia’s economy hard, said Moscow planned to switch its gas sales to “unfriendly” countries to roubles - a move that alarmed international markets.

She promised a carbon zero future, but New Zealand’s Prime Minister has agreed to cut fuel taxes as the price at the pump shot up to $NZ3 a litre.

The vaccine maker said it will ask US regulators to authorise its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6 years old.

“I would like to be a doctor in the future but for now I have no hope, I am like a dead body,” Khadija, 16, said in reaction to the news.

Like France’s military emperor Napoleon conquering Europe, Russia on Putin’s watch has waged a series of skilful campaigns expanding its reach across the internet and social media. Until now.

Jakarta’s ambition to be a global player is under the spotlight as it wrestles with the G20 presidency following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mariupol is under continuous bombardment but Ukrainian forces say they have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv.

Military analysts had expected Russian forces to quickly destroy Ukraine’s military aircraft. Instead, “Top Gun”-style aerial dogfights now rage above the country.

The black box belonging to flight MU5735 has been found, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, giving investigators hope of finding why the plane dived into a mountain range with 132 people on board.

The Ukraine - Russia crisis drags onto late March.

Prince Harry is suing a newspaper over what he believes is a defamatory article that told “how Harry tried to keep his legal fight over bodyguards secret...”

Up to 3 million households faced the threat of blackouts on Tuesday night, as utility Tokyo Electric Power Co warned of tight supply and surging demand as snow fell.

Police said the attacker careened his car into a cyclist and stabbed five people across a swath of the city centre of Beersheba.

Couy Griffin, an elected official from New Mexico, was found guilty of illegally entering restricted US Capitol grounds on January 6.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison on fraud charges, in a ruling that will keep President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent out of active politics for years ahead.

Cases against military figures including junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing are being prepared to hand to the Australian Federal Police.

Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian forces would continue to attack critical infrastructure using “high-precision weapons and indiscriminate munitions”.

The flight’s almost vertical descent matched the fate of two previous disasters.

Researchers reviewed the records of more than 181,000 US Department of Veterans Affairs patients diagnosed with COVID-19 over 17 months.

Hospital staff are on standby and emergency workers pushed through the night, but no passengers have yet arrived.

The fear is that if Putin feels cornered in the conflict, he might choose to detonate one of his lesser nuclear arms — breaking the taboo set 76 years ago after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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The royal’s trip aims to strengthen Britain’s ties with Commonwealth countries, but it’s off to a rocky start.

Putin’s army has shown itself to be militarily inept since invading Ukraine. With soldier morale fading, the systematic destruction of Mariupol is no longer a military objective.

After a Kyiv shopping mall is devastated by Russian bombing, Ukrainian families try to get through the day in evacuation centres.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 400 civilians were taking shelter at an art school in the Sea of Azov port city when it was struck by a Russian bomb.

There’s an art to crossing checkpoints in Ukraine. Approach slowly, but not too slowly, and have your documents ready. Dim your lights; do not spook the soldiers.

She comes from a family of law enforcement but is related to a convicted felon. The first black woman to be named to the Supreme Court also acted alongside Matt Damon in university.

A picture might tell a thousand words but the tragic scenes captured by Kate Geraghty in Ukraine leave one speechless.

Without effective planning and protection principles, getting people out of harm’s way can lead to more displacement.

China faces its worst air disaster in three decades after a plane carrying 132 people plunged into mountains in the country’s south-east.

British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was recently freed from detention in Iran, had harsh words for the British government.

Shokrollah Jebeli, 83, had been held in Evin prison since January 2020, after he was detained over what appears to be a small financial dispute.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk turned down the Russian demands, saying: “There can be no talk of any surrender, laying down of arms... just open the corridor”.

Over the past three weeks, thousands of posts appeared on Russian social media featuring schoolchildren posing for pictures forming Z and V-for-victory signs.

The moves could quieten some criticism from residents who have become increasingly frustrated with the city’s stringent measures, some of which have been in place for over two years.

Rowan Downing QC has accused the United Nations of an “attack upon the independence of the judiciary”.