Indonesia's foreign ministry has weighed in to the recycling issue, saying the country should not have to deal with waste from countries such as Australia.

The one-time financier and friend of rich and famous was charged this week with trafficking girls. This week on Please Explain: how powerful men avoid accountability.

A British naval vessel escorting an oil tanker has aimed its guns at Iranian boats.

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In a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the states told China to stop arbitrary incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslims minorities.

Masses of tangled plastic litter and packets of snacks were retrieved from the animals' stomachs, with the heaviest amount weighing 4.3 kilograms.

What Kim Darroch lacked, in the face of the attacks from Trump, was a strong endorsement from the man now favoured to be prime minister, Boris Johnson.

A couple caught up in one of the worst embryo-related mix-ups in US history has filed a lawsuit against the fertility clinic at the centre of the debacle.

After a 57-year-old was declared missing, attention gradually turned to his only companions - 18 dogs.

The activists have seized on the G20 summit of world leaders in Japan this week to appeal for the former British colony's plight to be put on the agenda.

Privately, people close to the White House said they viewed Harris as "very dangerous" and the hands-down winner of the debate on Thursday.

The 22-year-old James Fields was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after ramming his car into a crowd of protesters.

Tania Vanessa Avalos arrived in El Salvador with a family friend who had gone with them on their ill-fated journey to the United States.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korea's Kim Jong-un to shake hands during a visit by Trump to the demilitarised zone with South Korea.

Juncker described the pact with the bloc made up of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as "an historic moment" that came 20 years after talks were launched.

And, for the flamboyant, rumpled, ambitious former London mayor Boris Johnson, there's been some tripping up already.

Carter's comments came during a panel discussion at a retreat for donors to the Carter Centre, an organisation he founded in 1982 that has been at the forefront of election monitoring efforts around the globe for decades.

Australian nurse Kirsty Boden "paid the ultimate price", one of London's top police officers said as the inquest drew to a close.

The mercury reached an all-time high at 45.9 degrees amid a heatwave in Europe that has claimed several lives.

Indonesia's Constitutional Court is poised to block an attempt by defeated presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to over turn April's election.

Iran is vowing a "stronger reaction" if the US violates its borders again, as the EU makes a last-ditch effort to keep the Iran deal alive.

On Sunday, more than a quarter of a million people demanded that Babis quit at the biggest public protest since the end of communist rule.

Protesters rallied outside the justice secretary's offices, blocking roads and forcing workers to leave.

Temperatures this week were expected to reach a level not seen for June since 1947, and could surpass that.

While Donald Trump was bored by the first Democratic debate, he should also be relieved. Nothing would have shaken his confidence in winning a second term.