A water leak has damaged hundreds of books at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world's most visited museum just weeks after a daring jewel heist.

Four people were arrested at the Tower of London after they threw food at a display case containing the Imperial State Crown.

US vaccine advisers have scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot.

Hong Kong authorities are removing all mesh netting on buildings undergoing renovation across the city, after the materials were blamed for fanning a deadly blaze last week.

Australian Senator Pauline Hanson and her anti-immigration party have rocketed up opinion polls, nearing a peak seen 30 years ago when she first entered politics.

Vladimir Putin warned European powers that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute there would be no one left to negotiate a peace deal.