The New South Wales Bar Association has confirmed Katina Dawson is one of the victims of the Sydney hostage crisis.

Around 100 demonstrators sit in the road, saying they're ready to be arrested, as bailiffs armed with court orders clear Hong Kong's main pro-democracy protest site.

At the height of his power, Zhou Yongkang controlled police forces, spy agencies, court systems and prosecution offices across China -- and the domestic security czar wasn't shy in deploying his vast assets to crush dissent and unrest in the name of "preserving social stability."

The deadly storm that battered the Philippines for days weakened as it rumbled from one island to another, passing close to Manila.

John Sutter confesses he can't resist the convenience of using Uber even as he worries about the company's way of doing business

Japanese voters head to polling stations for parliamentary elections Sunday, described by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as a referendum on his flagship economic policies.

The world seems to be going crazy for Pokémon GO.

'Ocean Spiral' proposed as giant underwater city

At Fusahiro Shimojima's workshop, in the industrial city of Saitama, fires rage in small pits and an earthen floor absorbs the din of hammering. The 44-year-old Japanese swordsmith pounds the nascent blade of his newest creation, sending molten sparks flying majestically into air.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a French-funded school in Kabul during a play that condemns suicide attacks, leading to deaths and numerous injuries, the French foreign minister said.

A 29-year-old U.S. citizen denounces his home country at a press conference in Pyongyang after entering the country illegally. His mother says he's mentally unstable.

A group of armed insurgents has stormed the Kabul Bank in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a spokesman for the provincial governor said Wednesday.

An Indonesian maid has told a Hong Kong court that she was tortured for six months by her former employer, who shoved a vacuum cleaner tube into her mouth, breaking teeth and tearing her mouth.

For the first time since she was attacked two years ago, the world can now see the uniform that teenager Malala Yousafzai wore when she was shot in the head by the Taliban.

Legislators in the capital of China's restive far-western Xinjiang province passed a law Wednesday to prohibit residents from wearing burqas in public, state media reported Thursday, highlighting the government's continued campaign against religious extremism.

A suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Kabul on Thursday morning.

Australia has again appealed to Indonesia's new president to spare two of its citizens who face execution by firing squad.