Pope Francis has opened his first trip of the year with a visit to a women's prison hosting the Vatican's exhibition at the prestigious...

Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned his war cabinet for the second time in less than 24 hours to weigh a response to Iran's weekend missile...

Google has resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity through its Chrome browser. Google has...

China remains a "very good friend", New Zealand's defence minister says, despite Beijing backing a cyber attack on the NZ parliament and...

South Korea's military says it has detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles into waters off its northeastern coast in its...

North Korea says it now considers the South as an enemy at war. North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly has voted to scrap all agreements...

Former president Donald Trump says he wants to debate US President Joe Biden ahead of the election on November 5. Former president Donald...

Chile President Gabriel Boric says forest fires in the country's centre have killed at least 64 people. Wildfires sweeping through...

Angry farmers have hurled stones, lit fires and tried to tear down barriers in front of the European Parliament as they demanded help...

Kim Jong-un has called the nuclear armament of North Korea's navy an urgent national agenda as he supervises a submarine-launched cruise...

North Korea's latest launch was aimed at testing the reliability of new multi-stage, high-thrust solid-fuel engines and a hypersonic...

McDonald's plans to open 1900 in some of its bigger international markets like Australia, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom....

Indonesia's Mount Marapi in West Sumatra province has erupted and is spewing white-and-gray ash plumes more than three kilometres high....

Philippine military officials say two Chinese fighter jets "orbited" an aircraft taking part in drills with Australia. Two Chinese...

Israel says a captive soldier has been executed and two foreign hostages held at a site that has been a focus of its Gaza offensive....

Israeli troops have entered Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City but say there has been no fighting and no friction with civilians, patients or...

Officials from several countries say they are trying to resume the ability of people to cross the Rafah border point between the Gaza...

Israel's military has struck more than 600 militant targets over the past few days as it expands ground operations in Gaza. Hamas says...

Israel has urged Russia to protect "all its citizens and all Jews" after a mob reportedly stormed a Dagestan airport seeking people...

Australian de-mining equipment, x-ray machines, a 3D metal printer and counter-drone systems are on their way to Ukraine, officials say....