A Toronto man stole the identities of 38,000 people in a massive credit card fraud scheme described by prosecutors as high-tech bank robbery.

Bangalore: Authorities in southern India have arrested a 24-year-old man who ran a Twitter account that glorified the so-called Islamic State militant group.

Terrorism's idiocy defies rational appraisal but Germany has been somewhat immune to radicalism of the Islamic variety.

A little-known legal case being decided half a world away from the South China Sea could have a big impact on escalating tensions in the region.

US President Barack Obama met Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday to seek joint action on security threats including Iran and Islamic State.

Channel Nine will do another  piece on Sally Faulkner and the Beirut child snatch operation but the content has yet to be determined, a spokeswoman has confirmed.

North Korea has said it is preparing to put a new satellite into orbit, using a rocket that is widely seen as an intercontinental ballistic missile in the making.

Ferocious fighters, the Pakistani Taliban are loosely aligned with other terrorist forces across Afghanistan and Pakistan. But who really are they and why do they shoot children?

Drone strikes and other "targeted killings" of terrorist and insurgent leaders favoured by the US and supported by Australia can strengthen extremist groups and be counterproductive, according to a secret CIA report published by WikiLeaks.

In his blog Alek Sigley said his father was an "Anglo-Aussie sinologist" and his mother was Chinese - she spent a "tumultuous youth during the Cultural Revolution", he wrote.