Already facing a worrying new COVID-19 outbreak, Australia’s close neighbour has been hit by devastating flooding and landslides, claiming the lives of at least 11 people.

New data shows more than 75 per cent of coronavirus cases sequenced in Europe last month were found to be the more contagious Kent variant.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency after a significant leak at a large pond of wastewater threatened to flood roads and burst a system that stores polluted waters.

All ships stranded by the grounding of the giant container ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal in March have passed through the canal, ending the backlog that built up during the blockage, the canal authority said.

Demands for refunds spiked. Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared. But the money helped keep former President Donald Trump’s struggling campaign afloat.

The Biden administration has put Johnson & Johnson in charge of a Baltimore manufacturing plant that ruined 15 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, and moved to stop the facility from making another vaccine developed by AstraZeneca.

Amazon.com has apologised to US congressman Mark Pocan, admitting to scoring an “own goal” in its initial denial of his suggestion that its drivers were sometimes forced to urinate in bottles during their delivery rounds.

Argentine President Alberto Fernández says he had an initial positive test for COVID-19, despite having been vaccinated in January.

Egypt has held a gala parade celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital.

The influential rapper and actor is gravely ill after a heart attack.

The half-brother of Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he has been placed under house arrest and accused the country’s “ruling system” of incompetence and corruption.

Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli has been released from a California prison and is under home confinement following his imprisonment for his role in a college admissions bribery scheme, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The family of the man identified as the person who killed one Capitol Police officer and injured another by ramming them with a vehicle on Friday has released a statement expressing condolences and saying the suspect “was not a terrorist by any mea...

Security forces in central Myanmar opened fire on anti-coup protesters on Saturday, killing at least two people according to local media.

Since the bill was brought before Parliament last month, there have been sporadic protests, including violent ones in which a police station was bombarded with bricks and glass bottles.

“Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans,” said MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, following discussions with the baseball clubs and players.

The US National Weather Service said the widely reported bright objects in the sky on March 25 were remnants of the second stage of a SpaceX rocket.

At one point, Pope Francis prayed that God would give people his hope so that “we will be able to recognise you even in the darkest moments of our life.”

Two people are dead after a driver rammed into a barricade outside the US Capitol before lunging at police with a knife, law enforcement officials said.

Sputnik is just the latest tool Moscow has used to gain influence in Europe, exploiting rifts between the European Union, which has had a disastrously slow vaccine rollout, and some member states.

“If your knee is on a person’s neck, that can kill him,” said Lieutenant Richard Zimmerman, the head of the Minneapolis Police Department’s homicide division.

People who are fully vaccinated can travel within the US without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward, the CDC says.

The US and Iran say they will start talks with other major world powers next week to try to get both countries back into an accord limiting Iran’s nuclear program.

Prosecutors in Taiwan on Saturday sought an arrest warrant for the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a train track and caused the country’s worst rail disaster in decades, killing 50 people and injuring 178.

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.

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.

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”.