A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax picture editors.

Local sources say the crowd was protesting after Indonesian soldiers beat a 12-year-old boy, but Indonesia says that story is a fabrication, and the crowd 'ran amok'.

The weekend death of the northern white rhino Angalifu, 44, leaves only five of his kind in the world.

Australian suspects may be involved in the booming Chinese meth trade.

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The head of Russia's influential Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said on Sunday cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were "childish" compared to offences it had dished out to Christians.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took a variation of his stump speech to a new audience on Monday: Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

A fire broke out at a Las Vegas Strip luxury hotel and destination for music stars, injuring two people and covering the gambling district with thick plumes of black smoke.

Results are in for one of the most bitterly contested elections in Indonesia's recent history.

Five people are dead and eight have been injured after a shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.

The US official co-author of the contentious memo permitting water-boarding and other interrogation techniques, now seen as torture by many around the world, has conceded operatives might have "crossed the line".

Cubans, weary of decades of isolation from the rest of the world, are relishing the rapprochement with the United States.

A local leader in Tanzania who had been accused of adultery has been attacked and beheaded by a gang of men, who then cooked some of his body parts, police say.

Australia has warned Myanmar to respond to attacks on its security forces in a "measured way" as tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in the country.

Singaporean voters may accept change after all three of the island nation's prime ministers have had Chinese roots.

The siege in Sydney’s CBD and its terrible end received saturation coverage on American cable news, with at least one commentator lamenting Australia’s tough gun laws.

Western Sydney claim to have reached an agreement in a pay dispute with players, ending the threat of a boycott at the Club World Cup in Morocco.

Dallas Police chief has stepped into America's fierce gun rights debate, officially expressing what many have been thinking.

The Vatican said on Tuesday that Pope Francis will expand access to confession for abortion, but it was not immediately clear if the pope's comments were symbolic or a change in Catholic Church practice.

The Republican presidential candidate was asked how it would be different from Jews having to register in Nazi Germany.

Jarryd Hayne fans were left scratching their heads when the 49ers refused to play the Australian in the second half of the Steelers' loss.

West Indies cricketers following-on after being all out for 201 shortly after tea on the third day at Centurion in reply to South Africa's 5(dec)-552.

Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok and the government's former deputy leader Rafael Hui have been found guilty of corruption in a blockbuster trial that shocked a city known for clean governance.

South Africa have enjoyed an easy time in the first Test against West Indies at Centurion, winning by an innings and 220 runs.

US President Barack Obama and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed a new era of friendship as they broke the deadlock on a long-stalled nuclear pact.