The results from the Georgia election will determine how much of Joe Biden's agenda he can pass in the early years of his presidency.

Republicans launched their most fierce attacks on Trump since his election, accusing him of inciting violence by falsely claiming widespread election fraud.

The world might be witnessing not only the death throes of the Trump presidency but of US democracy.

Lawmakers are questioning whether an "embarrassing" lack of preparedness allowed a mob to occupy and vandalise the US Capitol.

The Democrats' victories in Georgia will have significant national and global ramifications.

At a park, with Congress about to reject the protests he had nurtured about the Electoral College outcome, Trump urged his supporters to take another step to back him.

The storming of the US Congress buildings was a thuggish attempt to overturn a free and fair election.

The United States Senate and House of Representatives have been evacuated after furious supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building to halt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

Among the winning bidders is an affiliate of 88 Energy, an Australian oil company that has an interest in a drilling project on state-owned lands in northern Alaska.

Leaders around the world have expressed shock at the storming of the Capitol in the United States, a country they once relied upon for global leadership.

Before long, the President's supporters were inside the Senate chamber, prowling amid the mahogany desks and sitting on the marble dais.

The comments from one of China's top scientists are the most detailed public statements yet from a Chinese official describing circumstances at the start of the crisis.

Ukraine has registered more than 1 million COVID-19 infections and 19,357 deaths and has yet to approve any of the newly developed vaccines.

The Capitol in Washington has been secured after supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with police and stormed the building. Here's what we know.

The Justice Department said that 3 per cent of its Microsoft Office 365 email accounts were potentially affected by the hacking.

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Dan Eliasson was photographed in the Canary Islands and defended his actions saying he had "given up a lot of travel during this pandemic".

One woman has been shot dead as the capitol building is secured and Congress resumes to condemn the hours-long violent occupation.

Two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor have been fired. Activists have vowed to continue protests until all the officers associated with the raid are fired.

What more must happen before the United States stands up to Donald Trump?

A significant portion of the Republican base is consumed by paranoid conspiracy theories and almost entirely cut off from the mainstream media.

Democracies around the world have criticised China after Hong Kong police rounded up more than 50 prominent pro-democracy campaigners and accused them of trying to overthrow the government.

By refusing to accept the peaceful transfer of power, Trump polluted the bloodstream of American politics and made violence inevitable.

Doctors, nurses and retired health workers have criticised the complex 21-point checklist they have to meet to qualify as a vaccinator.

Jon Ossoff, son of an Australian, wins his Senate race, giving President-elect Joe Biden control of Congress as thousands attend Trump rally that claims election was stolen.

Garland will confront immediate challenges, including a tax investigation into Biden’s son, Hunter, as well as calls from many Democrats to pursue inquiries into Trump after he leaves office.

The judge said she was satisfied that if released, Assange would fail to appear for further proceedings.

The sentences are the latest crackdown on independent thought in a country where authorities are busy stamping out dissent ahead of an important meeting by the ruling Communist Party later this month.

Two Democratic victories will spark blood-letting among Republicans over whether Donald Trump's claims of election fraud cost them their Senate majority.

Those arrested included former politicians and pro-democracy activists, arrested on suspicion of subversion under the city’s national security law.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made a frank admission that his country's economy had "immensely underachieved" in the past five years.

China sent one official back home and the other is staying in a third country until they are granted entry.

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After months of lockdown, Israelis view a COVID-19 vaccination as a golden ticket that will finally allow them to get on with their lives.

The US Vice-President has pushed back against Donald Trump's demand he block the congressional certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory, while also attempting to placate the President.

If Democrat Jon Ossoff wins his Senate race, he will have what is believed to be one of the closest connections to Australia of any member of Congress in US history.

Scott Morrison's claim has earned a rebuke from the UK's drug regulator, which insists batch testing does take place before distribution.

The statement represented the US government's first formal attempt to assign a possible motive for the widespread cyber attacks on federal agencies.

"Coming to play golf is not what I would consider an essential purpose," Scotland's first minister Nicole Sturgeon said on reports the President could visit.

If all goes smoothly, the result that decides control of the US Senate might be known tonight - but complications could drag out the count for days.

Virus evolution fears as one in 50 people in England had COVID-19 over Christmas: "quite a very large number indeed," said England's chief medical officer.

Plastic bottles and bags, rusty barrels and other garbage could be seen clogging the Drina river near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad.

Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the virus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California.

Voters are streaming to polling sites in Georgia in a pair of run-off elections that will determine control of the US Senate.

The former head of state-owned China Huarong Asset Management Co Ltd has been sentenced to death for bribe taking in one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years.

Dr Anthony Fauci says the US' slow vaccine rollout cannot be blamed on mistrust: "getting it going into the people who want it is really the issue".

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The kingdom is seeking to grant the Trump administration a final diplomatic win, curry favour with the Biden administration and isolate its enemy Iran.

"I hope that our great Vice-President comes through for us ... Of course, if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much."

Foreign Minister Marise Payne says the embassy asked for assurances that notorious extremist Abu Bakar Bashir would not be a future threat.