At a security conference in Munish, Israeli Prime Minister, facing corruption allegations at home, threatens to 'act' against Iran

Germany's outgoing foreign minister has delivered an extraordinary warning of the threat posed by China's One Belt One Road initiative.

At least 17 people died in Mozambique's capital when a 15-metre pile of garbage collapsed onto homes.

Al Hoffman Jr, a Florida-based real estate developer, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.

One of the emails Ricketson sent to this reporter in 2015 discussed the timetable for the scheduled return to Phnom Penh of the exiled opposition leader.

The people who survive, not just those who are injured or killed, are the lucky ones. But our life also changes in ways we cannot predict or control.

US President Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter on Sunday night over a segment on CBS's 60 Minutes program and again said he hoped she would face him as an opponent in the 2020 presidential race.

The White House indicated that President Donald Trump was open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise background checks for gun buyers.

Dozens of teenage students have held a "lie-in" on the pavement in front of the White House to demand presidential action on gun control.

Air New Zealand has cancelled all flights out of Wellington, as the remnants of tropical cyclone Gita pummelled the country on Tuesday.

It was the first successful breakout from Piedras Gordas, supposedly one of Peru's most secure jails, in 12 years.

He is thought to be the richest pirate who ever lived - amassing treasure worth hundreds of millions in today's money, before he was lost at sea.

New recruits to the notorious Russian troll factory were thrilled by the salaries earned simply for posting on the internet. But the work hid a darker reality.

Who is afraid of special counsel Robert Mueller? President Donald Trump is afraid. So are those who worked on his campaign. But they are not alone.

A UN official for the Syria crisis, said the humanitarian situation is spiralling out of control in the country.

Donald Trump's security staff reportedly came to blows with Chinese officials over a briefcase containing the nuclear codes during a visit in Beijing.

A Thai court has ruled in favour of a wealthy Japanese man who fathered 13 surrogate children, naming him their legal parent and sole guardian.

A senior official in Haiti has vowed to launch a wide-reaching investigation into charities operating in the country.

Washington: The White House was under siege.

Donald Trump is either hiding something so threatening to himself or he's criminally incompetent to be commander in chief.

Lawyer Alex van der Zwaan has been charged with lying to the FBI last November about work his law firm performed in 2012 related to Ukraine.

Child welfare advocates have hailed the conviction of Drew Frederick Shobbrook, 51, from Sydney, as a landmark case.

​Grey District on the West Coast has followed Christchurch and Buller District in declaring a state of emergency as the remnants of tropical cyclone Gita bears down on central New Zealand.

A man at an ugly sweater party souvenired the digit, infuriating Chinese museums over theft of a cultural object.

Crisis-ridden Venezuela is launching an oil-backed cryptocurrency on Tuesday that it hopes will help circumvent US financial sanctions and resurrect the country's moribund economy.