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.

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".

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

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

The treaty organisation has traditionally focussed on the threat of Russia, but is increasingly concerned about China’s nuclear arsenal and lack of transparency.

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

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

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

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.

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

Five-year-old Julianna Snow, whose story about confronting terminal illness touched millions, has died at home in her mother's arms.

“How on earth can I offer up evidence for something where there is no evidence?” she said, her voice rising in anger during the brief, unscheduled conversation.

If this fight has taught us anything, it’s that Ukraine shouldn’t become more like the West.

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.

Poland's former president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, has admitted allowing the CIA to operate a "black site" prison in his country.

The world's first test-tube rhinos could be born from animals at a British safari park.

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.

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.

The release of a report on the CIA's mistreatment of terror suspects may spark a spate of court cases in several countries.

West Indies cricketers following-on after being all out for 201 shortly after tea on the third day at Centurion in reply to South Africa's 5(dec)-552.