When an Australian decides to travel via rail from New York to San Francisco, he rediscovers his hope for the country.

Companies can no longer churn out products first and ask forgiveness later, Tiffany Hsu reports.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Jakarta to demand the daughter of the country's first president be jailed for blasphemy against Islam.

Park Geun-hye has been formally convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison, a year after she was driven from office.

Najib Razak wants another chance at the top, but will the Malay heartland desert him and return to former PM Mahathir?

"It's reality TV being applied to real-world economic policy with frightening implications for the Australian economy," says an expert.

NGO representatives in PNG have fears for the physical and mental health of the earthquake-affected population, especially children.

Former president was ordered to report at a police station in the southern city of Curitiba by 5pm local time.

The target list includes some who are closely tied to Putin himself, including top-tier officials involved in Kremlin decision-making.

China's state media has rallied against the United States, warning its trade protectionism actions would end in defeat.

Assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment, a federal judge said.

Skiers sit on a lift at Germany's highest mountain Zugspitze near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany on Friday.

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil defied a Friday deadline to report to prison to begin serving a 12-year corruption sentence.

A member of a US dark web gun trafficking group that hid firearms in electronics products and sent them to customers in Australia.

At least six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border on Friday, as thousands of demonstrators burnt tyres.

This sort of behaviour is familiar to people living in Egypt, Hungary, Thailand, Turkey and Russia, Juli Briskman writes.

A vehicle drove into a group of people in the western German city of Muenster on Saturday, killing several of them and probably the driver, police said.

Afghanistan forces killed an Islamic State commander in an air strike, one year after he defected from the Taliban and established a new IS foothold within the country, security officials said.

There was never any doubt who killed Nick Lashuay. His father found him in a pool of blood and Jerry - a kid everyone knew was trouble - was missing.

Martin Sellner and his political and alternative media allies may be behind Australia’s new-found interest in the fortunes of white South African farmers.

Fourteen people killed and 14 people injured after a truck collided with a bus carrying a junior hockey team to a game in Western Canada.

Police do not believe the attack by a German citizen, in which two bystanders died and 20 were injured, was terrorism related.

A monsignor who worked as a diplomat at its embassy in Washington and is suspected of possessing child pornography in the US and Canada has been arrested.

The ex-spy and his daughter allegedly poisoned by Russia in England may be offered new identities and resettlement in the US.