After years of debate, University of NSW climate researchers have resolved data issues that not only reveal those "hot spots" to be there – but they are in fact warming some 10 per cent faster than modelling has predicted.

The New York Times and its primary union said on Tuesday that the paper was laying off at least 21 employees because it had not received enough voluntary buyouts to cover newsroom budget cuts.

Albright’s experience as a refugee prompted her to push for the US to be a superpower that used its clout to stop the genocide in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday, angered by the government's handling of an investigation into 43 students massacre in 2014

Poison gas conjures up the ghost horrors of WWI. But it’s been used in battle since. And Western leaders are warning that Russia may use it soon in Ukraine. What would that mean?

Europe's most wanted fugitive Salah Abdeslam has been extradited to France from Belgium to face questioning over last November's attacks in Paris.

Three men carrying Australian passports were arrested at a Bolivian international airport last week waiting to board a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, accused of carrying explosives.

Bali Nine member Michael Czugaj is among 66 prisoners who have been transferred to a remote jail in East Java after prison authorities said they caught him with traces of the drug ice in Kerobokan jail.

World News Update, What you need to know

As Russia’s propaganda machine jolts back to life, flooding the Western world with curated hoo-hah, a popular notion in Russia is that these days everything is PR - the same cynical idea can be described as a symptom of the post-Great Recession West.