Pakistan has called the Taliban attack on the army-run school in Peshawar a game changer in its fight against terror.

Bali's pro-death penalty governor doesn't want Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran executed on his island, believing it may spoil the harmonious climate.

Almost 200 cruise ship passengers on a tour of New Zealand have come down with a stomach bug.

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Dredging up more self-belief is in the only way Auckland City can notch a third upset win at the club World Cup, says coach Ramon Tribulietx.

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

An unexploded 250-kilogram World War II bomb has triggered a mass evacuation in Germany.

Ukrainians mourn loved ones, clear up rubble and prepare for the next Russian attack.

Slow-moving Typhoon Hagupit has weakened as it churns across the central Philippines islands, easing fears of widespread mass destruction, but officials warn the storm could still bring severe flooding to the low-lying capital Manila.

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.

Beheaded corpses found in a mass grave are a message from Islamic State militants according to a moderate Syrian group.

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

A Turkish court on Monday formally charged three employees of Vice News with having links to a terrorist organisation, the online news channel said, days after they were detained while reporting from the mainly Kurdish southeast.

“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.

A fragile truce between Ukraine forces and pro-Russian separatists appeared to hold on Tuesday as two more guardsman died from wounds sustained in violent protests.

Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers in Queens, the police said late Monday that a man they had in custody had been charged in the killings.

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

A massive fire at an apartment complex has shut down parts of freeways in downtown Los Angeles.

A South African court acquitted Briton Shrien Dewani on Monday, clearing him of charges he paid hitmen to kill his wife while on honeymoon in Cape Town four years ago.

A Sydney mother-of-four facing the death penalty in Malaysia claims she was innocently set up to carry drugs to Melbourne.