The US official co-author of the contentious memo permitting water-boarding and other interrogation techniques, now seen as torture by many around the world, has conceded operatives might have "crossed the line".

The mass killing in a church at the heart of African American history has reignited an old and bitter debate over the place of Confederate flag in the South

Cubans, weary of decades of isolation from the rest of the world, are relishing the rapprochement with the United States.

Five people are dead and eight have been injured after a shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax picture editors.

Ongoing record warmth in the world’s oceans has increased the likelihood that 2014 will be declared the hottest year since reliable data began more than a century ago, US and Japanese agencies say.

A local leader in Tanzania who had been accused of adultery has been attacked and beheaded by a gang of men, who then cooked some of his body parts, police say.

North Korean despot Kim Jong-un has been invited to next year visit Moscow on the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Results are in for one of the most bitterly contested elections in Indonesia's recent history.

US intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was "centrally involved" in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures' computers,

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has led a chorus of international leaders in condemning the attempted military coup in Turkey on Friday night.

Australia has warned Myanmar to respond to attacks on its security forces in a "measured way" as tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in the country.

Dallas Police chief has stepped into America's fierce gun rights debate, officially expressing what many have been thinking.

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has declared "a state of lawlessness" after a bomb ripped through a popular night market in his home southern city of Davao, killing 14 people and wounding 67 others.

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.