After three months of protest and bitter debate, Japan has finally farewelled its longest-serving prime minister.

NASA has purposefully flown an unmanned spacecraft into an asteroid in a new experiment.

More than a dozen military conscription buildings have been set on fire across Russia.

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has been farewelled at a state funeral after he was assassinated in July.

A NASA spacecraft has intentionally collided with an asteroid as a trial in planetary defence.

The ascent of Giorgia Meloni is remarkable considering her humble background in a country where family ties often trump merit.

The cypher consists of the initials ‘C’ and ‘R’ - representing Charles’s name and “Rex”, the Latin for king - alongside a depiction of the crown.

World champion Magnus Carlsen has broken his silence about why he resigned after just one move in his game last week against 19-year-old American Hans Niemann.

Twenty-five years ago, Australian diplomats, business people and their families were fleeing Malaysia as air pollution caused by Indonesian forest fires engulfed the nation. The pall of pollution stretched across six nations and had been responsible ...

Wild pigs are threatening dogs and livestock in Wellington, New Zealand.

Many Italians evidently think that Giorgia Meloni possesses something that technocrats like Mario Draghi lack: authenticity.

The pipeline has been one of the flashpoints in an escalating energy war between Europe and Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.

The shooting comes after scattered arson attacks on enlistment offices and protests in Russian cities against the military call-up that have resulted in at least 2000 arrests.

The former contractor with the US National Security Agency has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the US.

A gunman has killed 15 people and wounded 24 others in a school in central Russia, authorities said.

Retired international footballer Gary Neville joked that Liz Truss’ interventions had tanked the pound lower than his reputation in the city of Liverpool.

Liz Truss has issued a call to fellow leaders, as Ukraine braces for a massive mobilisation of Russian troops.

Anthony Albanese will fly into a storm of protest in Tokyo surrounding the funeral of Shinzo Abe as other world leaders pull out of the memorial.

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Surf instructor Jeff Walton was caught with heroin and methamphetamine when arriving in Bali from Vietnam and faces a long stretch in an Indonesian prison.