With increasing interest from China in the region, Australia is right to be concerned what happens to the islands.

Residents have been ordered to stay home, and about 70 per cent of the flights have been suspended to and from the governmental and economic centre.

Any hopes of sending humans to Mars in the next 20 years depend on the ability to make oxygen on the surface for the astronauts to breathe.

The devastation generally caused by farmers lighting fires to clear land in drier months is more widespread than the blazes that set off global outrage in 2019.

Abnormal heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers triggered floods that have submerged a third of the country and killed more than a thousand people.

The report, which some said had been ready for months, was published with just minutes before UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet left the job.

Liz Truss has consistently held significantly more support among the roughly 175,000-strong Tory membership who will decide Boris Johnson’s replacement.

The spectacle of garbage piled and strewn across the streets is symbolic of the sense of decay that could grip Britain this winter.

The wreckage of the famed ship Titanic has been filmed in striking high-definition by OceanGate Expeditions.

A Sherpa has filmed a bottleneck on K2, which documents a line of climbers trying to reach the summit of the world's most dangerous mountain.

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The novel British proposal could plug Australia’s capability gap as it races against time to acquire nuclear submarines before the Collins Class boats are retired.

Taiwanese defence officials said China’s “high intensity” military patrols near Taiwan continued since Nancy Pelosi’s visit.

As Australia emerges from a third long, cold COVID winter, Boris Johnson’s bold move is being examined closely.

The palace has confirmed the 96-year-old monarch will not make the 1600-kilometre round trip from Scotland on Tuesday.

In one of his last acts as British prime minister, Boris Johnson has made an unannounced visit to England’s north to personally meet Australia’s defence minister.

The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died aged 91.

On the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death, she is being remembered as a changemaker.

It is the latest court decision to challenge the country’s conservative mores, and could have major implications for the rights of women and gay people.

One of the great figures of the past 50 years, he oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and helped end the Cold War and the threat of nuclear war.