Dark times call for dark humour, especially in Russia, where wags are saying the rouble has now fallen below the psychologically important threshold of "I no longer give a damn".

She was a social media star known as Pakistan's Kim Kardashian but model and singer Qandeel Baloch used her fame for more than just self promotion.

Justice Minister urges Australians to ensure they are donating to legitimate charities in the wake of a report on terrorism funding.

Lodged under enormous quantities of salt, magnesium and potassium lies their goal: the essential power source for all the world's gadgets.

The suspect in the explosion outside a kindergarten, a 22-year-old identified as Xu, is among the dead, the Xuzhou city government said.

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The suicide bomber who stepped inside the gold-domed shrine in southern Pakistan in February was wearing a vest packed with ball bearings, bolts and screws. When he hit the detonator, he killed more than 80 people.

Australia's climate policies are "a decade behind" other rich nations, says UN official.

White nationalists have embraced the blockbuster Black Panther to push their argument online that nation-states should be organised by ethnic groups.

The White House has cast aspersions on adult-film star Stormy Daniels over a much-watched TV interview.

Almost 200 cruise ship passengers on a tour of New Zealand have come down with a stomach bug.

Ongoing record warmth in the world’s oceans has increased the likelihood that 2014 will be declared the hottest year since reliable data began more than a century ago, US and Japanese agencies say.

Australia will take on a Fiji side boasting the familiar faces of ex-Waratahs Ben Volavola and Nemani Nadolo in Cardiff on Wednesday.

The terrorist behind the Bastille Day atrocity was radicalised in a matter of weeks, French officials indicated on Saturday after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the lorry rampage and described him as a "soldier of Islam".

The positioning of a small number of elite US personnel in the coastal city of Sirte deepens the involvement of Western nations against the Islamic State's most powerful affiliate.

To the long list of ambitious goals he has set, no matter how far-fetched they might seem, President Donald Trump added a new one.

Trump has told China that the United States will go it alone in confronting North Korea – without saying what that means.

Two paramilitary soldiers have been killed when Pakistani soldiers attacked dozens of forward posts along the highly militarised frontier, Indian officials say.

Eric Mott returned home to Florida from vacation on Wednesday, expecting his mother and son to pick him up at the airport. When they did not appear, the father tried calling 15-year-old Logan Mott, First Coast News reported. No answer.

The US President also said he eats "fine food, really from some of the finest chefs in the world".