Channel Nine will do another  piece on Sally Faulkner and the Beirut child snatch operation but the content has yet to be determined, a spokeswoman has confirmed.

North Korea has said it is preparing to put a new satellite into orbit, using a rocket that is widely seen as an intercontinental ballistic missile in the making.

Ferocious fighters, the Pakistani Taliban are loosely aligned with other terrorist forces across Afghanistan and Pakistan. But who really are they and why do they shoot children?

Drone strikes and other "targeted killings" of terrorist and insurgent leaders favoured by the US and supported by Australia can strengthen extremist groups and be counterproductive, according to a secret CIA report published by WikiLeaks.

In his blog Alek Sigley said his father was an "Anglo-Aussie sinologist" and his mother was Chinese - she spent a "tumultuous youth during the Cultural Revolution", he wrote.

Australia is the worst-performing developed nation when it comes to climate-change action, a survey by European non-government organisations shows.

US Navy SEAL forces moved the wounded hostages to an aircraft and flew them to an awaiting naval ship, the Makin Island, off the coast of Yemen. Surgeons and medics worked on the two men on the way to the ship, but one died en route and the other on the operating table, according to the officials.

The massive tar-coloured dunes of Titan, made of fine and powdery hydrocarbons and possibly ice particles, are the product of long-term weather cycles, scientists now believe.

Twenty-four people are stuck near the top of of a 24-metre rollercoaster in Maryland in the United States, after the ride stalled.

Kwon Pil-ju is trying desperately to teach herself English before she is reunited in the coming weeks with a son she sent away almost 40 years ago.

As Malcolm Turnbull prepares to embark on his first official visit to China as prime minister, some 60 Chinese community leaders in Australia gathered in Sydney urging him to watch his words when discussing the South China Sea in Beijing.

The International Criminal Court says Libya has violated an obligation to hand over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and it has referred the matter to the UN Security Council.

US intelligence officials have concluded that the North Korean government was "centrally involved" in the recent attacks on Sony Pictures' computers,

The iCloud account of Pippa Middleton, younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, has allegedly been hacked and 3000 photographs stolen.

Pakistan has called the Taliban attack on the army-run school in Peshawar a game changer in its fight against terror.