Plans for a high-wage, high-growth economy lie in ruins as Britain's Conservative prime minister struggles to answer a cost-of-living crisis, compounded by rising worker unrest.
Tobias Friedrich Moran, accused of murdering his German backpacker girlfriend in 2005, has been granted bail after prosecutors decided not to appeal against his release.
French rescue services and environmental experts were trying to assess the health of a beluga whale that wandered up the Seine River and are pondering rescue options for a creature more suited to...
The person believed to have shot dead three people on a property in rural Queensland is custody as details of a potential motive for the killings slowly come to light.
US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $6.5 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said on Thursday.
A Russian court sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia.
Suspected drones have flown over outlying Taiwanese islands and hackers attacked its defence ministry website, Taipei authorities say, after a visit by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi that outraged China.
Kansas voters have rejected an effort to remove abortion protections from the state's constitution, a resounding win for the abortion rights movement in the first statewide test since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Australia's Covid winter outbreak fuelled by the new Omicron sub-variants BA.4/5 may have peaked early, Health Minister Mark Butler says, as hospitals reported a steady fall in admissions over the past week.
A man arrested with a crossbow at the Queen's home at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day has been charged with having a weapon with intent to "alarm her Majesty" under Britain's Treason Act.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called for a de-escalation of tensions between Beijing and Washington after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan.
Chilean authorities have started investigating a mysterious sinkhole about 25 metres in diameter that appeared over the weekend in a mining area in the north of the country.
China has furiously condemned the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in 25 years as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the self-ruled island as "one of the freest societies in the world".
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected meet with Taipei's leader this week, with the US saying it won't be intimidated by Chinese "sabre rattling" over the visit.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan, the biggest blow to the militant group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.
Kubilay Kilincer's admission that he murdered his boss Hasan Dastan in 1995 was a lie made to eliminate the pressure of a 25-year long police investigation, a Sydney jury has heard.
The first ship to carry Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea since Russia invaded Ukraine left the port of Odesa under a safe passage deal described as a glimmer of hope in a worsening global food crisis.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday his government was ordering the mandatory evacuation of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting with Russia.