Tokyo’s patience with China - as demonstrated by its strong backing of Australia - is wearing thin despite centuries of shared culture, trade and war.

The country’s second-largest lake is gone. It dried up about five years ago. Its people and language are struggling to stay alive.

The 79-year-old from Los Angeles has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

The first in-person gathering of world leaders since the pandemic began features a beach barbecue, but the summit’s main menu is several meaty issues.

The unappetising muck has become a source of national embarrassment and rising anger, prompting the President to intervene.

It may not be a race in Australia, but the urgency to distribute whatever COVID-19 vaccine supplies are available in the region is palpable.

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Last week the Brazil-based multinational said it was the victim of a ransomware attack, but this is the first time its US division confirms it paid up.

“We have to end COVID-19 not just at home - which we’re doing - but everywhere,” Biden told US troops based in England.

The White House will conduct its own review of security risks in TikTok and WeChat, as Trump orders “weren’t always implemented in the soundest fashion”.

Harry and Meghan claim it is “defamatory” for the BBC to say Duke did not consult the Queen about using her nickname for their baby daughter.

Damien Tarel’s motives for slapping the French President remain unclear but his cry “Montjoie! Saint Denis!” is a centuries-old royalist call to arms.

The extremism label carries lengthy prison terms for anyone who has worked with Navalny’s groups, donated to them, and even shared the groups’ posts.

While high-ranking politicians from the US, UK and Asia have visited Indonesia in the last year, Australia hasn’t sent anyone - but China is strengthening links.

The city of Guangzhou tested practically its entire population of 18.7 million over three days following an outbreak of the Delta variant.

The move sandwiches China between the world’s first and third-largest economies after the US said it would not leave Australia to face Beijing alone. 

Democrats and Republicans put aside their bitter differences to pass a vast bill designed to get America to out-compete China economically and technologically.

He was an unlikely presidential candidate, a rural teacher who for the past 25 years has seen his students struggle in crumbling schools where his colleagues also cook and sweep floors.

“This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Parliament.

Students voted to remove a portrait of Her Majesty alleging it represented “colonialism”.

The US Vice-President readily admits she can’t fix the root causes of Central American migration to the US “in two days”.

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Four days after the birth of her daughter Lilibet, the Duchess’ first book The Bench, a rhyming tribute to fathers, has received tough reviews

Asked what he would do if the UK government postponed lifting the lockdown, the composer replied: “We will say: ‘come to the theatre and arrest us’.”

Asked how much worse it could have been if he hadn’t paid, Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount told the Senate: “That’s an unknown we probably don’t want to know.”

A source leaked tax data to ProPublica on the wealthiest people in the US, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.

That this is the third time Morrison has been invited to the G7 stands as a testament that Australia’s warnings on China are being heard.

Prosecutors said Pearse and his co-conspirators used a practice called “auto-subscribing” to bilk unwitting customers for unsolicited messages about celebrity gossip, horoscopes, jokes, love tips and trivia.

The judge said there was evidence the aeroplane was hit by an outside explosion caused by a Russian-made Buk missile.

The rejection of Mladic’s appeals closed a grim chapter in European history that included the continent’s first genocide since World War II.

In a video circulating on social media, the French President reaches out his hand to greet a man in a small crowd of onlookers before he is slapped in the face.

Her body was found in a bag in woodland in the county of Kent one week after she vanished in a case that outraged Britain.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi promises to ramp up vaccine procurement to try to vaccinate 75 per cent of Indians sooner than in two years.

The Kangs are considering moving to Canada in the hopes of reuniting with their little boy after 15 months apart.

Bdelloid rotifers may be the toughest, tiniest animal you’ve never heard of, but scientists say they can survive anything.

Authorities said a young man was arrested in the parking lot of a nearby mall after the incident on Sunday night in the Ontario city of London.

Already letters from the European Commission in English are going unanswered.

Carroll - who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her two decades ago - sued him for defamation over his insulting denials while president.

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The Rajabi family lives in the basement, third floor and part of the second. The Tanami family lives on the first floor and rest of the second.

The British PM has defended a cricketer suspended over historic racist tweets and refused to condemn fans who boo the national soccer team for taking the knee.

Nearly 76 per cent of adults in the UK have had at least one shot of vaccines by AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna, and 52 per cent two doses. 

Recovering the funds reflects what US officials say is an increasingly aggressive approach to deal with a ransomware threat that in the last month has targeted critical industries around the world.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s controversial decision delighted advocacy groups but defied the wishes of many top experts in the field.

The World Health Organisation says Australia and other countries face a “genuine dilemma” about how to move away from their zero-COVID approach and are now more at risk than other countries as a result of their elimination strategies.

An express train crashed into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.

Jeff Bezos said on Monday that he and his brother Mark would fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin.

The Prime Minister will have to clear a COVID-19 test on arrival at Changi airport on Thursday before a fly-in-fly-out visit to the city-state in lockdown.

For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.

The campaign for the midterm elections has been one of the bloodiest in recent history: 97 politicians had been killed and 935 attacked.