Chinese President Xi Jinping wasn’t able to stop Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, so engaged in a face-saving effort for his domestic audience, experts say.

A senior member of the human rights organisation has resigned over a report that accused Ukrainian forces of exposing civilians to Russian attacks.

An Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander in the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, their second leader to be slain amid an escalating cross-border conflict.

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Actor Anne Heche has severe burns and remains in hospital intensive care following an accident in which her car smashed into a house and flames erupted.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says shelling at nuclear power plant raised the risk of a nuclear disaster.

Study reveals that felines are more likely to be attracted to people who are less interested in them.

While Democrats still face significant headwinds, a confluence of events in recent weeks has given both Joe Biden’s party and the Republicans pause for thought.

The One Nation senator has joined the opposition in attacking the Australian government’s response to the outbreak of the livestock virus in Indonesia.

Chinese aircraft and warships practised on Saturday for an attack on Taiwan, island officials said, in retaliation for a visit there by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The military-owned body that employed Ou Yang Li-hsing is working to more than double its yearly missile production capacity to close to 500 this year, amid China’s growing military threat.

The conspiracy theorist had already been found guilty last year for defaming the victims’ families while spreading conspiracy theories that Sandy Hook school massacre had been part of a government plot.

US authorities say three people have died after a lightning strike close to the White House.

The backlash from across the political spectrum undermined his campaign’s push to present Sunak as the more electable leader of the Tories.

Earlier this week, the United Nations nuclear watchdog appealed for access to the plant, which Washington says Russia is using as a battlefield shield.

The strikes came a little more than a year after an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, which killed at least 250 people in Gaza and 13 in Israel.

US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $US45.2 million ($65.4m) in punitive damages for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury has decided.

Kelvin Shuo Gao, 41, is in custody in the Thai capital. Xing Liu, 65, was shot in the stomach twice.

As differences in the security outlooks of Canberra and Jakarta are exposed by AUKUS, Indonesia is eager to step up the countries’ underdeveloped trade and investment relationship.

Two people who were hospitalised after a lightning strike near the White House, have died, a police spokesman said on Friday.