It was a DC lawyer's dream come true, a Hollywood premiere for a movie based on the novel he wrote in his spare time. But when The Revenant, the highly anticipated new film adapted from Michael Punke's book, had its big opening in L.A. - an evening featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Oscar-wi...

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

He was, in many ways, a perfect spy - a man so important to Cuba's intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the CIA paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades.

Turkish police have detained at least 24 police officers and media workers, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled a new campaign against supporters of a Muslim cleric.

Sally Faulkner says she still hasn't seen her children despite being freed from prison almost 24-hours ago in a deal struck between the Nine Network and her estranged husband Ali Elamine.

The World Health Organisation has made its long-awaited decision on China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, approving the jab for emergency use in all adults, meaning it can be rolled out globally.

Istanbul's international airport has reopened with Turkish Airlines resuming flights on Saturday following a failed coup attempt.

The fate of 10 death row prisoners saved from the firing squad in Indonesia remains unclear.

A United States citizen who attacked US policies and its human rights record during a press conference in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang is mentally ill, his mother says.

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.

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.

Declassified files have revealed new details of US government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign in the 1960s.

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.

The Rio Olympics are yet to produce its final medal tally but one team has already claimed victory.

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Thailand's ousted PM says the junta has fined her $1.3 billion over a rice subsidy scheme critics say haemorrhaged billions of dollars.

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New free trade deal will pave the way for more Australians to live and work in Britain once international borders reopen.

As Malcolm Turnbull prepares to embark on his first official visit to China as prime minister, some 60 Chinese community leaders in Australia gathered in Sydney urging him to watch his words when discussing the South China Sea in Beijing.

A return to the seaside village of Unawatuna in Sri Lanka 10 years after it was devastated in the Boxing Day tsunami brought back good and bad memories for a Melbourne family.

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.

A little-known legal case being decided half a world away from the South China Sea could have a big impact on escalating tensions in the region.

What was supposed to be on the trip of a lifetime for a pair of young Aussie backpackers has become a nightmare for the family of Rye Hunt, in the fortnight since he vanished in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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