Typhoon Hagupit has now weakened after leaving at least three people dead in its wake, but Philippines authorities have reported no major damage.

Friends of bankrupt tycoon Scot Young, who has died after falling from his fourth storey London apartment, have expressed their utter shock and said they could not accept he had taken his own life.

Hundreds of homes have been evacuated in Southern California as heavy rains and wind lash the drought-stricken area.

Despite deploying hundreds of officers, German police have been unable to find a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is the latest and highest-ranking administration official to distance himself from President Donald Trump.

The European Union and Cuba signed an agreement in Havana on Friday to normalise relations, paving the way for the 28-member bloc to establish full economic co-operation and aid with the Communist-run Caribbean island.

The jailing of an American student demonstrates the power of propaganda in North Korea.

If anything will help one of India's oldest mothers, septuagenarian Daljinder Kaur Gill, to raise her baby boy, it won't be energy drinks, age-delaying pills, or yoga.

After nearly five years on the job, Office Amber Guyger has been fired for the shooting and for engaging in "adverse conduct" when she was arrested.

Buckingham Palace has released the official photographs from the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank.

The activists were instrumental in persuading Lorde to cancel a Tel Aviv show, leading to legal action on behalf of distraught fans.

Beijing security firm Knownsec Information Technology reported on Monday that Chinese organisations suffered an average of 800 million cyber attacks daily in 2018.

Tokyo: The death toll from earthquakes in southern Japan has risen to 41 after a magnitude 7.3 quake struck just 24 hours after a smaller one devastated the area.

Hundreds of survivors stranded by a huge earthquake that struck central New Zealand three days ago reached Christchurch on a naval ship early on Thursday, as engineers in the capital, Wellington, assessed the state of dozens of damaged buildings.

A Palestinian man threw a chemical substance believed to be acid at an Israeli family in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring a man and four children, Israeli police and the military said.

At least five people were killed in shootings at three locations in suburban Philadelphia and a manhunt was under way for the killer.

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Islam wants you to think he's a big shot. On his website, Ettaz Financial, he wears a pair of fogged-over glasses, expression serious, sporting a red tie on a snowy day.

Stepping out of his legendary brother's shadow, President Raul Castro has scored a diplomatic triumph and a surge in popular support with the deal that ends decades of open hostility with the United States.

List includes a man who punched a Japanese shop assistant and people fighting on a flight from Cambodia.

Weary migrants fleeing from the conflict in Syria and Libya, or the economic desperation in some African nations, were welcomed to Austria with a round of applause from hundreds of locals, and a banner reading: "Refugees Welcome - Open Borders".