Tropical Cyclone Mitchell has strengthened to a category three storm as it nears the Western Australia coast, bringing with it damaging wind gusts of up to 185kmh.
Italy launched the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics with a colourful ceremony that celebrated the country's history, arts and fashion but where global political tensions surfaced in the crowd reaction.
Three men, two of them teenagers, are dead after their light plane crashed into the ocean in front of onlookers at a popular South Australian fishing spot.
US President Donald Trump triggered outrage by posting a video depicting Barack Obama, the first black president in American history, and his wife Michelle as apes.
British PM Sir Keir Starmer has launched a fierce attack on his former US ambassador Peter Mandelson, saying he was sorry he'd believed his "lies" before appointing him.
Investigators presume the kidnapped elderly mother of a popular US TV news host is "still out there" four days after she was abducted from her Arizona home.
The Jeffrey Epstein files will remain online after victims of the disgraced financier said the US Department of Justice had committed to "expeditiously" scrubbing their identities in case notes publicly available.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has moved out of his Windsor mansion, a royal source has confirmed, after new damaging revelations about his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A police investigation has begun into Peter Mandelson, Britain's former ambassador to the US over alleged misconduct in public office, after claims he leaked market-sensitive info to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The son of Norway's crown princess has pleaded not guilty to rape and domestic violence but admitted to some lesser charges on the first day of his trial.