The father of Thanchanok Donhomla sat just metres away from Simon Peter Carman, who pleaded guilty on Monday to concealing the teenager’s body.

In American cities, legions of robots carting takeaway food orders are testing whether humans and robots can co-exist. Early signs are not promising.

Australian engineer Robert Pether has left Iraq after more than five years in detention following a protracted campaign to secure his release.

The death toll from the Houthi strike on Riyadh airport has risen to 13, says Saudi officials.

Spies still play an important role even as the war becomes defined by robotic eyes in the sky. Both sides have more weapons than ever. Old-fashioned human spying helps them find targets.

Implicit in Trump saying he doesn’t care how Hasan goes is that execution voyeurism is OK.

With petrol prices biting ahead of the midterm elections, the US president made a shock claim that both Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt strikes on energy targets. As usual, it’s another trick that’s unlikely to work.

But the president’s announcement was followed within hours by Russian strikes on a power plant in eastern Ukraine and other targets, while there was silence from the Kremlin on whether it would agree to a truce.

Carlos de Miguel III is a well-connected former US serviceman with a penchant for fast cars and big guns.

The 71-year-old pontiff will undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a nodular lesion on his lung.

An attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital has left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 people injured.

“Finding Amelia Earhart’s Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,” says the expedition leader who is hoping to solve one of the century’s great mysteries.

Protesters against disenfranchisement are outraged after being intercepted at airports and stopped by barricades. “Aren’t we children of this nation?”

In a matter of hours, an Iran-allied militia trounced Saudi-backed forces to take control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast. No one was able – or willing – to stop them.

In a late-night tirade, the US president disparaged this year’s recipient of the peace prize and said the award had been “forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues”.

It’s a major global financial hub where violent crime is rare. But the nature of this one is so gruesome, a juror asked to be excused.

The new Conservative leader is very popular and knows how to fight.

Thousands of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed across the city, mobile internet services were suspended in the central business district and dozens of metro stations and markets were shut.

The third attack this week on Riyadh’s international airport has left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 wounded.

Two children were among the eight people killed at a residential home in Erie, Pennsylvania. Police have described the mass shooting as one of the worst in the city’s history.