A Chinese mother has been charged with human trafficking for allegedly conspiring with a doctor to sell her baby boy for more than $A8000, media have reported, the latest case highlighting the country's lucrative child market.

The technique could in future be used to control the spread of malaria, which affected 216 million people in 2016.

When Australian Walter Gilmore first became the CEO of Siloam Hospitals Group in Indonesia in 2004 he would feel pretty upbeat after executive meetings.

A transgender woman who was sent to a male prison has been found dead.

New York's top prosecutor seeks the power to probe all police killings of unarmed civilians in his state, following two grand juries' moves to clear officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.

Poland's former president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, has admitted allowing the CIA to operate a "black site" prison in his country.

The CIA used much more brutal methods of interrogation on terrorism suspects than previously disclosed, according to a US Senate report.

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.

Law enforcement officials in Montgomery County were searching Monday night for a man suspected of fatally shooting six people and seriously wounding another person at three homes in towns outside Philadelphia earlier in the day.

When the so-called Islamic State began preparing for war in Iraq, it targeted the country's Sunni tribal leaders. One American was counting.

Hong Kong's highest-profile corruption trial opened the door on a world of fine wine, race horses and mistresses - exposing cozy ties between government and big business as protesters demanding free elections camped within view of the court.

Reporter pays a heavy price for her online plea for Finns to help her identify trolls, their activities and influence.

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

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An unexploded 250-kilogram World War II bomb has triggered a mass evacuation in Germany.