New Zealand may have its Schapelle Corby — a man accused of smuggling drugs into Bali who insists he is innocent and has been set up by others.

NATO accused Russia of posing a danger to civil aviation in the Baltic region after Stockholm protested over a Russian air force jet it said had flown too close to an airliner and had turned off one of its location instruments.

Pakistan's Taliban says it was "forced" to target the army school in Peshawar in an assault that left at least 144 dead, and it has threatened more violence.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 100 women and children and killed 35 people during a Sunday raid on the remote northeast Nigerian village of Gumskiri, a security source and resident said on Thursday.

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

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

The death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rose to 21 on Monday, the Philippine Red Cross said, after the storm tore through the country's central islands flattening homes and toppling trees and power lines.

Aussie keeper Mitch Langerak plays well but Borussia Dortmund lose 1-0 to Hertha Berlin and fall back into German football's relegation zone.

The Taliban have unleashed a wave of violence across Afghanistan, as the country's president struggles to appoint a cabinet.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution supporting Palestinian statehood in principle, in a compromise motion that did not follow some European national legislatures in backing immediate recognition of a Palestinian state.

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Civil rights activist and one-time slave Harriet Tubman will replace slave-holding former President Andrew Jackson on the $US 20 bill, becoming the first African-American woman to be featured on the face of US paper currency in more than a century.

A maternity hospital supported by Save the Children was bombed in an air raid in the Syrian city of Idlib on Friday, leaving at least five dead.

It's just past sunset and the strip at South Beach, Miami, is pumping. It is the biggest weekend of the year in America's glitziest city.

As Stanley Muli hid in a wardrobe from attacking Somali militants last week, he wondered why the army was taking so long to arrive.

England fans have booed Adam Voges for claiming a catch to dismiss Stuart Broad, with the third umpire overruling the on-field officials.

UN Human Rights Council appoints the first independent investigator to help protect homosexual and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination.

One week after Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power.

ISIS is increasingly the "losing team" and will find it harder to use the internet to lure young men from abroad into becoming jihadists, a US military spokesman says.