Australian businessman Matthew Ng, dubbed the country's first Chinese political prisoner by his supporters, has been granted early release from prison 18 months after his landmark transfer from the mainland.

South Korea's largest online shopping retailer says macadamia nut sales jumped 20 times following an airline exec's "nut rage" outburst.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who has suffered from Parkinson's Disease for three decades, was in a stable condition after being hospitalised with a "mild" case of pneumonia, his spokesman said on Saturday.

A Greek banking collapse has been temporarily averted after the European Central Bank pumped in a huge new injection of emergency funds, halting the need for capital controls this weekend.

Europe might be reaching a stage of nimble, diner-party diplomacy.

Florida authorities have reported what is believed to be the first evidence of local Zika transmission in the United States, concluding that mosquitoes have likely infected four people with the virus.

The most common cause of death by selfie worldwide was falling from a building or mountain.

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, appealed for the Palestinians to consider an economic support plan they have already rejected.

A parliamentary report into the handling of sexual harassment allegations against a former ally has opponents calling for the First Minister’s resignation.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that was scheduled to be held in Rwanda in June has been postponed, despite urgings by Australia and Britain that the conference should not be delayed for a second time.

US federal agents have since seized the cars along with $US2 million from his bank account.

More than 100 institutions controlling almost $1.1 trillion in funds worldwide have opted to make new divestments of at least some of their fossil fuel assets in the 10 weeks running up to the Paris climate summit, two campaign groups say.

Victoria's notorious globetrotting bikie boss Amad "Jay" Malkoun has found himself at the centre of the violent abduction and murder of a former Sydney Hells Angels member in Thailand.

It makes little practical difference but US labeling of ISIS as genocidal is important symbolically.

The US Justice Department has said it successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and asked a court to withdraw an order compelling Apple to assist, according to a court filing.

Desperate mother sends autistic infant to clinic that uses tough exercise regimes to treat illness.

Uber, the US online ride-hailing service, has been banned from operating in the Indian capital of New Delhi with immediate effect after a young female passenger was allegedly raped by one if its drivers.

Nice: When Jasmine woke up the morning after the horrific Bastille Day attack she thought the commotion upstairs was an early Friday morning party or festivity because the men were wearing masks and 

A bomb scare triggered by a note found on a Qantas plane has caused an evacuation of Queenstown Airport in New Zealand on Sunday afternoon.

The eruption occurred on Mount Etna when magma flowing into snow caused a violent explosion that sent stones and rocks flying into the air, emergency services said.

An explosion on Sunday near the Cairo's Coptic cathedral killed scores of people and injured others, Egyptian security sources said.

As Pakistan begins to bury the dead after militants rampaged through an army-run school in Peshawar, killing more than 130 children images of the assailants have emerged, along with a warning of more slaughter to come from the Pakistani Taliban.

US President Barack Obama moved to prevent US anger at North Korea from spiraling out of control on Sunday by saying the massive hacking of Sony Pictures was not an act of war but instead was cyber-vandalism.

Even by the standards of the Trump administration, the Scaramucci era was brief to the point of abrupt.

The Trump administration should respond to these recent attacks with strikes of its own on Iranian and Houthi air-defence assets, offensive missile systems and Revolutionary Guard Corps bases.