Istanbul's international airport has reopened with Turkish Airlines resuming flights on Saturday following a failed coup attempt.

Ali Elamine's behaviour in negotiations over his half-Australian children led one person to describe him as "pretty face, ugly heart".

German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago.

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At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren, were killed when a speeding bus fell into a canal in southern India on Saturday, an official and media reports said.

The Herald's picture editors showcase the best images from around the globe.

What was supposed to be on the trip of a lifetime for a pair of young Aussie backpackers has become a nightmare for the family of Rye Hunt, in the fortnight since he vanished in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A return to the seaside village of Unawatuna in Sri Lanka 10 years after it was devastated in the Boxing Day tsunami brought back good and bad memories for a Melbourne family.

The Rio Olympics are yet to produce its final medal tally but one team has already claimed victory.

Thailand's ousted PM says the junta has fined her $1.3 billion over a rice subsidy scheme critics say haemorrhaged billions of dollars.

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

Local sources say the crowd was protesting after Indonesian soldiers beat a 12-year-old boy, but Indonesia says that story is a fabrication, and the crowd 'ran amok'.

The weekend death of the northern white rhino Angalifu, 44, leaves only five of his kind in the world.

Australian suspects may be involved in the booming Chinese meth trade.

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The head of Russia's influential Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said on Sunday cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were "childish" compared to offences it had dished out to Christians.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took a variation of his stump speech to a new audience on Monday: Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

A fire broke out at a Las Vegas Strip luxury hotel and destination for music stars, injuring two people and covering the gambling district with thick plumes of black smoke.

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

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