Two-year-old Mateo Garcia Aguayo was alone with his father while his mother was at work.

Two top USA Swimming officials, including one whose job was specifically to protect athletes, have resigned after a series of scathing reports alleging that the organisation had ignored sexual abuse by coaches for years while athletes suffered.

The fallout over last week's shooting has started to take its toll on the organisation.

The boldest voices to emerge in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have been unexpected ones.

Instead of English and calculus, the teenagers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had another funeral to attend. Then they set off in three buses.

Hazem Hamouda's family blames old Facebook posts, in which he spoke about the banned Musliim Brotherhood, as being to blame for his shock, airport arrest.

The apparent spread of anti-democratic populism, including in the United States, has made some worry about the future of democracy. But is this really a crisis?

 Austria's new government is allowing secretive far-right groups to exert control over powerful positions in the state, according to an ex-chancellor.

Legendary Bollywood actress Sridevi Kapoor died Saturday after going into cardiac arrest, according to Indian media.

Hundreds of pro-democracy activists in Thailand wore cartoon masks portraying the country's junta leader with a long nose, calling him a "liar" for delaying a general election promised this year.

The National Rifle Association says companies that are severing ties with the gun rights group and its members are wrongly punishing them for a shooting at a Florida high school that claimed 17 lives.

As the UN Security Council voted unanimously on a 30-day cease-fire to stem spiraling bloodshed in Syria, medics in hospitals across a besieged Damascus enclave said they were treating fresh wounds and waiting for a miracle.

How did the Maldives, an archipelago made up of more than 1,000 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, unravel?

For all the Eastern Mediterranean's promise, energy hasn't been able to break the shackles of long-standing geopolitical rivalries.

Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to US intelligence.

"We should change the names of AR-15s to 'Marco Rubio' because they are so easy to buy," Chadwick wrote.

China has reacted with anger to new US sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on nuclear-equipped North Korea, saying the unilateral targeting of Chinese firms and people risked harming co-operation on the problem.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Two-year-old Mateo Garcia Aguayo was alone with his father while his mother was at work.

Two top USA Swimming officials, including one whose job was specifically to protect athletes, have resigned after a series of scathing reports alleging that the organisation had ignored sexual abuse by coaches for years while athletes suffered.

A persistent noise of unknown origin has bedevilled a Canadian city for years, damaging people's health and quality of life, numerous residents say.

Instead of English and calculus, the teenagers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had another funeral to attend. Then they set off in three buses.

The boldest voices to emerge in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have been unexpected ones.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with President Trump in Washington DC.