Reports said a truck fell from a cliff above and landed on the tracks, then a train emerging from a tunnel smashed into it.

There are fears the 30-year-old computer technician may be in a psychiatric hospital after he failed to appear in a Hong Kong court to face sedition charges.

A cruise vessel pulled the old anchor up along with its own after an overnight stop.

A spokesman for the Chinese pharmaceutical company said it has started cultivating cells where enough of the coronavirus would be grown.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her Australian economic adviser Sean Turnell have been charged with violating Myanmar’s official secrets act, her chief lawyer said.

The back and forth in some countries over the AstraZeneca vaccine has raised concerns for COVID vaccination rollouts. Here’s a look at what we do and don’t know.

A single panel of ancient stone from Afghanistan – stolen and sold to a German museum at a huge profit – tells the story of a country stripped of its cultural heritage over 40 years of civil war.

Criticism over Macron’s decision to enact tougher measures came as crowds enjoyed beers in parks and gardens in Paris and other big cities.

What’s the best text message you’ve ever received? Up there, for me, is the one I got last Friday afternoon from my doctor’s office about my COVID-19 vaccine eligibility.

Andreas Flaten’s former employer dumped more than 90,000 oil-covered pennies — equivalent to about $1180 — on his driveway.

Tugboat worker Eslam Negm thought about all the ship memes- the world was laughing at Egypt. “No one was able to see how much pressure we were under,” he said.

What would an Australia-Singapore travel bubble look like? After relocating to our new foreign bureau, I can perhaps provide a little insight into how it may work.

What’s behind the latest coup? Why is Aung San Suu Kyi in detention? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy? 

Bills excluding transgender children athletes from school and university sports have been introduced in 28 US states so far this year.

Benjamin Hannam, 22 is the first British police officer to be convicted of membership of an outlawed far-right group - National Action.

George Floyd’s girlfriend wept on the witness stand and two paramedics told the court they believed he was dead when they arrived as he had no pulse.

The suspect, identified as Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, knew all four victims, including a nine-year-old boy found dead in his mother’s arms.

An official report ordered in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests concluded that Britain did not have a systemic race problem. This did not go down well.

On April 2, 1966, General Electric announced plans for a “walking truck” for the US military. Three years later, an idea became reality.

The Brazilain President, a former army captain, has sought to steer the public conversation to his nostalgia for the 1964-1985 dictatorship and away from his handling of the pandemic.

When officers arrived at a small business premises the shots were still being fired. Up to four people were reported dead, including a child.

Apple Daily media tycoon Jimmy Lai and protest veteran Martin Lee were among seven activists found guilty of organising and participating in an unlawful assembly.

An emergency meeting of the UN’s security council did not persuade China to back sanctions but the superpower did say it hoped for “a democratic transition”.

The unusual decision will sweep away outside researchers picked under the previous administration who some say tilted too favourably toward regulated industries.

Jurors were shown police body camera video of the approximately 20 minutes between when police approached Floyd’s vehicle and when he was loaded into the ambulance.

The coronavirus may have initially jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary, but infections have since appeared in other animals, from zoos to mink farms.

The US President said that in 50 years people would look back on his infrastructure package as “the moment that America won the future”.

Now fully vaccinated, the Queen’s warm, chatty appearance at the air force’s centenary was a return to the public life she forswore during the pandemic.

The move is a departure from the government’s policy in recent months, which has focused on regionalised restrictions.

The campaign of harassment included being trailed by secret police on the morning the journalist couple hastily left the country.

A sting operation on the outskirts of Rome allegedly caught the Italian and one of the Russians in a “clandestine operation” to exchange the documents for cash.

The Russian opposition leader has started the hunger strike to protest officials’ failure to provide proper treatment for his back and leg pains.

A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested after allegedly attacking the woman near New York City’s Times Square, police say.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed that he legally married Prince Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle in May 2018, despite the couple’s claim that they had a private ceremony three days earlier.

Preliminary data from a study in the US showed there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared to 18 among those given dummy shots, Pfizer reported.

The visit to the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede was only the third time since March 2020 that the Queen has appeared outside Windsor Castle.

Correspondence released under the Official Information Act 1982 shows the tour’s promoter writing desperately to the NZ government to be allowed in.

The Karen National Union rebel group, which operates along the eastern border with Thailand, said on Tuesday it was bracing for a major government offensive.

With the situation in Myanmar now spiralling out of control and a major humanitarian crisis looming, the Australian government needs to act quickly.

The resignations followed the appointment of a new defence minister who celebrated the dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands of Brazilians.

They are among the estimated 20 million people around the world who keep cities clean. But despite risks, they miss out on the health services they need.

With his intense stare, cannonball head, bristling moustache and machine-gun style of speaking, Liddy looked like the archetypal bad guys he later depicted on TV.

The German shepherd nipped someone while on a walk on Monday while still adjusting to his new surroundings, a White House staffer said.

The city that never sleeps slipped into a COVID-era coma last March. But New York’s nightlife is back, with lights on for clubs and live shows from Friday.

Some see Taiwan’s religions of Daoism and Buddhism as encouraging the trend but experts say it is driven by a growing sense of isolation in the middle-class.

IPAC was formed last year, partly in response to China’s bullying of Australia after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the video of the attack “absolutely disgusting and outrageous” and said it was “absolutely unacceptable” that witnesses did not intervene.

The head of the World Health Organisation acknowledged his investigators were not able to access all the data they wanted during their trip to China.

The need for Australia to define what it stands for has never been more pressing and, it seems, never further from our grasp.

Several German regions have suspended use of the shots in people under 60 after reviewing the latest data on rare side-effects released by Germany’s medical regulator.