Gunman tries to kill editor before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be delivered.

Authorities in Rio are investigating what they have called an international corruption scheme aimed at buying votes.

Across Australia and the world, the drone market is surging. It is dominated by one company. China’s Da-Jiang Innovations, which controls 70 per cent of the world’s supply. 

The Australian lawyer representing Julian Assange has told his extradition hearing the Trump Administration offered the Australian a pardon over the WikiLeaks publications.

After nearly five years on the job, Office Amber Guyger has been fired for the shooting and for engaging in "adverse conduct" when she was arrested.

Countries usually celebrate when their filmmakers are nominated for an Oscar. Not so in Hungary, where ''Son of Saul'', directed by Laszlo Nemes, had been nominated for an Academy Award.

Tokyo: The death toll from earthquakes in southern Japan has risen to 41 after a magnitude 7.3 quake struck just 24 hours after a smaller one devastated the area.

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.

The field of Republican contenders for the White House in 2016 remains open.

The Herald's picture editors showcase the best images from around the globe.

The captain of a TransAsia Airways ATR plane that crashed in Taiwan in February, killing 43 people, had switched off the working engine after the other lost power, the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) confirmed on Thursday in its latest report.

But Jakarta is planning to build separate jails that remove convicted drug offenders and terrorists from the general prison population.

An Australian woman has died after falling 300 metres off a mountain in New Zealand's Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park.

An EgyptAir plane has disappeared from radar on a flight between France and Egypt, the airline has confirmed.

The Turnbull government has ratified the Paris climate agreement, formalising Australia's commitment to a global effort to curb carbon emissions and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.

Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar have given graphic descriptions of killings, rapes and burning of homes by soldiers, fuelling fears of ethnic cleansing.

French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron has claimed London for France, urging a packed rally of expat compatriots to return to their homeland – and bring the UK's bankers with them.

A Pirelli calendar girl who won £75 million ($130 million) from her former husband is likely to have the settlement delayed after he died.

He was interviewed by North Korea's official newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, and praised the country, in a report published this week, around the time he is believed to have been detained in Pyongyang.

Former British PM Ted Heath allegedly sexually assaulted seven men and boys, one just 10 years old, police were told in an investigation into historical sex abuse claims.

Seven-year sentence for rights advocate, as court convicts third activist in as many days amid crackdown.

Beirut: Lawyers negotiating on behalf of jailed Australian woman Sally Faulkner and her estranged Lebanese-American husband have failed to reach agreement, leaving Ms Faulkner as well as a Nine Network news crew in a Lebanese jail facing kidnapping charges.

A US man evacuating a wildfire ravaged passes a flaming mountain as he and his stepbrother make their escape in a truck.

A mother has been arrested in the Philippines after she allegedly spent five years sending sexually explicit images of her two daughters to an Australian paedophile.

The Westminster attacker Khalid Masood was born Adrian Russell Ajao and was from Dartford in Kent but took on a number of aliases before his murderous rampage targeting Britain's parliament this week.