At least four people have been killed, including a child, in an Israeli strike outside one of Beirut's biggest public hospitals.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are essentially tied in The New York Times’ polling average of five critical battleground states.

At least 15 branches of the bank-like institution Al-Qard Al-Hasan have been hit in southern Beirut.

Shane Wright, SMH and The Age's go-to numbers cruncher, breaks down how the next president of the United States will be elected.

He was the Republican who went viral for debunking Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies and warning someone would get killed. He was right.

Even Donald Trump recently admitted he’s guided not by his dozens of staffers, but by his 18-year-old son, when it comes to who he should be speaking with.

Keir Starmer has also ruled out formally apologising for transatlantic slavery and colonialism ahead of this week’s Commonwealth head’s meeting in Samoa.

President Maia Sandu says “unprecedented” meddling by criminal groups had tried to buy off 300,000 votes and keep the country in Russia’s orbit.

Israel airstrikes target banks in Beirut as US officials head to the Middle East.

A Royal New Zealand Navy transit through the Taiwan Strait underscores a big shift in foreign policy under Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

Israeli military forces besieged hospitals and shelters for displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip as they stepped up their operations, witnesses say.

Liam Payne's partial autopsy shows he had multiple drugs in his system at the time of his death.

John Shipton is in Moscow doing the rounds of Russian media to coincide with an international summit.

Israeli forces have unleashed a nighttime bombardment on Beirut's southern suburbs, shortly after issuing a warning for residents to evacuate.

No major party presidential candidate, much less president, in American history has been accused of wrongdoing so many times.

Meanwhile in Gaza rescuers are still recovering people from the rubble after an Israeli attack that killed dozens.

Modern concrete is much less resilient than the concrete used in Roman times. Now researchers think they know why.

The former president, a well-known fan of fast food and a notorious germophobe, expressed amazement that he didn’t have to touch the fries with his hands.

Instead of telling Trump he was over the line, Cardinal Dolan enabled him to cast his campaign as a quasi-religious crusade.

Israeli airstrike leaves at least 87 people dead in Gaza, local officials say.