As was the case 15 years ago, a political vacuum is being filled by violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Run, Rudd, Run. Can the former Prime Minster 'who pissed everyone off' snare the UN's top job?

Pierre Korkie was supposed to be released Sunday from 18 months of captivity in Yemen, under a deal struck by an aid group.

While Ebola fighters have been lauded by Time magazine, the disease is wreaking havoc in Liberia, where thousands have died, the economy is in tatters and a Senate election looms.

President Vladimir Putin has attempted to assuage fears of economic collapse and promised rapid recovery as he faced hundreds of journalists during the worst financial crisis of his rule.

The Royal Mail said it was paying tribute to “one of the most iconic and enduring music artists of all time”.

Day one of the US-China talks was a decidedly undiplomatic affair. Rather than a trust-building exercise, it was a geo-political airing of grievances.

Indonesia's Constitutional court is expected to announce on Thursday that it will not over turn the result of April's presidential election in favour of Prabowo Subianto - and that ruling is likely to trigger more protests.

The father put his two-year-old daughter safely on the US side of the Rio Grande river and went back for his wife. The girl tried to follow him.

Oliver Beaumont could not vocalise his suffering during the attack so he sustained a prolonged ordeal which was only noticed by the dogs barking, his aunt said.

The fish and game commission member killed a giraffe, leopard, impala, sable antelope, waterbuck, kudu, warthog, gemsbok (oryx) and eland in Namibia.

The bomb, planted on a motorbike, injured the Parliament Speaker and former president, and four others including a British national.

Ernie Merrick expects Wellington Phoenix to continue their impressive goal scoring form in Saturday's A-League clash against the Mariners.

After two games in place of Germany keeper Roman Weidenfeller, Socceroo Mitch Langerak will start the next three games for German club Borussia Dortmund.

Brad Jones' return to Liverpool's starting lineup soon became a nightmare as Manchester United put three goals past him at Old Trafford.

Actions necessary to head off "dirty operations", Turkey's president says, as European Union reacts with surprise.

Nancy Reagan was memorialised at her funeral at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Friday, closing a chapter of history revered by conservatives as the Republican Camelot.

The murky trail that leads from the murder of a Mongolian socialite a decade ago to the arrest and deportation of a Four Corners crew

Trinidad and Tobago's attorney general has signed documents that allow for the extradition of former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner.

Beaten 4-1 on day one, the International team is doing better on the second day of golf's Presidents Cup clash with USA in South Korea.