China's President Xi Jinping has visited a drizzly Macau for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub's return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas – the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.

Singaporean voters may accept change after all three of the island nation's prime ministers have had Chinese roots.

Asher Keddie, Germaine Greer and Alan Jones are among those who have thrown their support behind two Australians facing the death penalty in Indonesia, in a powerful star-filled video calling for mercy.

A UK theatre has been fined for safety breaches a week after it was revealed an Australian woman received a $7m payout after being paralysed in a fall.

South Korean and Japanese jets have joined exercises with two US B-1B bombers above and near the Korean Peninsula.

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.

It was a DC lawyer's dream come true, a Hollywood premiere for a movie based on the novel he wrote in his spare time. But when The Revenant, the highly anticipated new film adapted from Michael Punke's book, had its big opening in L.A. - an evening featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Oscar-wi...

Turkish police have detained at least 24 police officers and media workers, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled a new campaign against supporters of a Muslim cleric.

He was, in many ways, a perfect spy - a man so important to Cuba's intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the CIA paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades.

Sally Faulkner says she still hasn't seen her children despite being freed from prison almost 24-hours ago in a deal struck between the Nine Network and her estranged husband Ali Elamine.

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

The twice-weekly service will begin as soon as a trans-Tasman bubble is established, the airline says.

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

A United States citizen who attacked US policies and its human rights record during a press conference in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang is mentally ill, his mother says.

The fate of 10 death row prisoners saved from the firing squad in Indonesia remains unclear.

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.

Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign in the 1960s.

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

The siege in Sydney’s CBD and its terrible end received saturation coverage on American cable news, with at least one commentator lamenting Australia’s tough gun laws.

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