National security adviser HR McMaster said on Saturday that evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 US election was "now really incontrovertible" after indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three companies.

Pope Francis renewed a commission on clergy sexual abuse on Saturday, confirming a US cardinal as its head, as the Vatican promised to give victims a greater say in its work.

On the domestic and international stage, no rival comes close to the veteran prime minister. But could corruption finally be his undoing?

Few people have up until now acknowledged the part that history plays in this sad saga of failure to effect meaningful changes to gun laws.

The temple seen by Tibetans as the "symbolic heart" of Tibet was ablaze on Saturday night, and the Chinese government has released little information.

Thousands of angry students, parents and residents have marched in Florida demanding stricter gun control laws as new details are revealed about the suspect accused of shooting and killed 17 people in a high school.

Operating from St Petersburg, they churned out falsehoods on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Campaigners have taken inspiration from the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to call for gun control in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

US President Donald Trump has insisted for more than a year that Russians didn't try to get him elected. Special Counsel Robert Mueller put an end to those claims on Friday, declaring definitively that they did.

A Baltimore County jury awarded $46.8 million in damages to the family a black woman killed by county police.

An explosive device wounded four Israeli soldiers, two severely, near the border fence with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, spurring Israeli air strikes later in the day against Palestinian militant targets.

Six civilians suffered breathing difficulties and other symptoms indicative of poison gas inhalation after an attack launched by Turkey on the Kurdish- controlled enclave of Afrin, local doctors and Syria's state-run news agency report.

An attack by three suicide bombers has left at least 18 people dead and more than 20 others wounded at a fish market outside the sprawling Nigerian city that gave rise to the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, officials and news reports said Saturday.

A helicopter carrying officials assessing quake damage was about to land nearby when the pilot lost control. A few seconds later, it crashed to the earth.

A plane crash in southern Iran has killed all 65 people on board, Iran's Aseman Airlines spokesman said.

German police are investigating an Australian-born British woman for suspected incitement after she questioned the Holocaust.

Top US officials have told Europe's foreign policy elite to pay no attention to Donald Trump's tweets.

US President Donald Trump spent the weekend in Florida attacking friends and enemies from his golf retreat.

More than 100 years since his debut as a character, the literary bunny will feature on a new 50 pence piece.

The description of the video on YouTube said the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was behind the kidnapping and killing.

At least two women have received money, and others have had their stories bought, then suppressed by tabloids, thanks to the work of his personal lawyer.

The volcano has been at the highest alert level since 2015 after persistently erupting in the past few years

Teenagers who survived the school shooting have called on politicians to finally act, saying 'We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around'.

As alleged Melbourne sex offender Malka Leifer hosted Hanukkah in her apartment, she was being watched by undercover investigators only 20 metres away.

Hosts and guests will be screened and matched with international trafficking databases to reduce the risk of 'pop-up brothels'.