Residents of Ecuador’s capital have picked their way through piles of burned tires and chunks of pavement after the city turned into a battleground and buildings were torched by vandals.

A black woman in the US has been shot and killed by police after a neighbour called the non-emergency dispatcher and asked the police to do a welfare check. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed about 2:30am on Saturday when police attended her Fort Worth home after a concerned neighbour raised the a...

Poland’s governing nationalist party has declared victory in Sunday’s general election. An exit poll gave the conservative Law and Justice party more than 40 per cent of the vote.

Labor frontbencher Kristina Keneally believes the Morrison Government should consider bringing home the Australian women and children that are marooned in Syria because of their links to foreign fighters.

Thousands of troops carried out a massive rescue operation across Japan as the death toll from Typhoon Hagibis rises.