It will take more than progressive government policies to ensure equal opportunities for mothers and fathers.

There are lots of things you can't do on Twitter. But you can lie.

The UN and US have demanded an independent investigation into a massacre in Myanmar’s violence-wracked Rakhine State.

Dick Whittington's latest successor, London's Lord Mayor, wants you to trust investment banks again.

President Donald Trump declined to release a House Democratic rebuttal of Republican memo alleging bias in the Trump-Russia probe.

Before the ceremony, US Vice-President Mike Pence had skipped a dinner reception with the North Korean delegation.

Trump, in a pointed response to the uproar over charges of domestic violence by two top aides, cautioned on Saturday that lives can be shattered by a "mere allegation" and asked whatever happened to "due process?"

A classified memo written by congressional Democrats to rebut a Republican document made public last week is "very political and long" and would have to be "heavily redacted" before it could be released, President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday.

Israel launched air strikes against air defences and Iranian targets in Syria after the Syrian army claimed to have hit an Israeli F-16 jet.

Mary Lou McDonald was confirmed as the new president of Sinn Fein on Saturday, taking over from Gerry Adams in a handover that could advance the nationalist party's ambition of governing on both sides of the Irish border.

At least 18 people died in a high-speed bus crash in Hong Kong on Saturday in one of the city's worst traffic disasters in recent years.

The terrorists who killed eight people, including two Australian women, in last year's London Bridge and Borough Market attack were pumped up on steroids, a pre-inquest hearing has heard.

A visit by Moon to the North would enable the first summit between leaders from the two Koreas since 2007.

Aussie builder's $4 billion plan is on ice, as battle over what critics say is 'social cleansing' ensues.

A former neo-Nazi says he is often called to help members of the military and police who have been exposed to hate speech in the ranks and become radicalised.

Kim Yo-jong is "the Ivanka Trump of North Korea" because of her family connections and her ability to be a compelling saleswoman

Six people have been killed and dozens are injured after a street vendor's gas canister exploded near the route of the world renowned folkloric Carnival in the Bolivian city of Oruro.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has hit South Korea, according to the US Geological Survey.

East Timor could receive up to 80 per cent of revenue from the $50 billion Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in the Timor Sea under a still-secret agreement with Australia.

A packed tourist bus returning from an outing has collided with a motorbike and plunged off a hill on Indonesia's main island of Java after its brakes apparently failed, killing at least 27 people.

Israel launched air strikes against air defences and Iranian targets in Syria after the Syrian army claimed to have hit an Israeli F-16 jet.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP said that it has cut its sales force in half and will stop promoting opioids to doctors following widespread criticism of the ways that drugmakers market addictive painkillers.

Saudi women need not wear the abaya - the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith - a senior member of the top Muslim clerical body said.

The North's invitation risks driving a wedge between the United States and South Korea.

The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into an orbiting real estate venture run by private industry.