Losing patience with a COVID strategy that appears to have no end in sight, many of China’s middle class are planning to leave the country.

Movie star and stage icon Angela Lansbury died aged 96 after a glittering career.

Prosecutors accused Lucy Letby, 32, of being a “constant malevolent presence” at a hospital in northwest England in a years-long case that has sparked horror and fascination in the country

The Australian PM has vowed to stand by Ukraine as Russia launches new missile strikes on cities.

Former rugby league player Sean Garlick and his wife Samantha returned to the island for the 20th anniversary of the bombings, remembering those who didn’t come back.

The arrests included five Russians who were allegedly involved in the blast that damaged the bridge that is logistically vital to Vladimir Putin’s military campaign.

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The Albanese government’s response to Ukraine’s pleas for help has been too tepid and too slow. A more generous and urgent response is needed.

Niloofar Hamedi got away with hard-hitting stories for years until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini’s parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital.

Buckingham Palace announces coronation date for King Charles III.

After a successful mission to shift the orbit of an asteroid, NASA insists we should no longer be concerned about a future asteroid collision.

In 1958, the United States’ Pioneer satellite crashed back into the earth’s atmosphere after a historic scientific mission. Despite ultimately failing in its mission to make the moon’s orbit, the Pioneer achieved numerous firsts in space explor...

NASA says the spacecraft that ploughed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit.

The British-born actor, who had a career that spanned eight decades, was a cousin of former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s mother, Carol Lansbury.

Simon Templeton, New Zealand's Age Concern's chief executive, says David Lee's treatment of his father was "appalling" but not isolated with one in 10 people over 65 at risk of abuse.

The decision by the Saudi-led OPEC group last week was particularly irksome for Joe Biden, who met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in July, and now faces the prospect of higher inflation ahead of the midterm elections.

More missile strikes killed at least one person in the southeastern Ukrainian town of Zaporizhzhia and left part of the western city of Lviv without power, local officials said.

The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike trail of dust and rubble stretching several thousand kilometres.

The conversation reportedly came before a series of Musk tweets urging Ukraine to seek a negotiated solution to the invasion by Russia and to cede Crimea for good. 

The US-brokered deal settles a maritime border dispute in a gas-rich part of the Mediterranean Sea.