The Sydney siege has brought home some troubling truths to Australians. They are as vulnerable as Europeans to what are often called "lone-wolf" terror attacks.

When Taiwan's high court passed a resolution in May 2017 ruling it was unconstitutional to ban same-sex couples from getting married, it was seen as a rare beam of light in a region infamous of its repression of LGBT people.

Seventeen people have died and 91 more are missing in a landslide in Indonesia, the country's disaster management agency says.

Pokémon hunters around the world are getting desperate waiting for the app to launch in their countries -- so much so that it even cost one frustrated Pokémon enthusiast his job.