The airline workers were accused of violating pandemic rules and causing the city’s Omicron outbreak, as Beijing announced tickets would not be publicly available for the Winter Olympics.

Tonga police say the confirmed death toll stands at two but with communications cut, the true extent of casualties is not clear.

Djokovic returns home at Serbia's President request.

If Serbians were jubilant that their hero was home, you couldn’t tell on the streets of Belgrade.

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A six-year cold case investigation into the betrayal of Anne Frank has identified a surprising suspect in the mystery of how the Nazis found the hiding place of the famous diarist in 1944.

The image may look familiar. It rises again just about annually, of a library that has been attributed over the years to authors including Umberto Eco and buildings in Italy and Prague.

While the vaccine dose, which was sent to Rwanda, is a significant moment for what has become the largest vaccine operation in history, it lags well behind where the scheme hoped to be.

British media reported that at least 11 gatherings took place at 10 Downing Street or in other government departments between May 2020 and April 2021.

Malcolm Turnbull has had his critics over the years – including this writer – but it’s now absolutely clear that Turnbull’s policy towards China was very much in Australia’s best interests.

The Cambodian Prime Minister has already “zoom-bombed” an opposition meeting, now from next month the country will filter all online content China-style.

The Chinese-Australian writer says his plight has allowed him to put a spotlight on China’s legal system. 

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While Tonga’s neighbours struggled to access information about what was happening on the ground, scientists, equipped with modern monitoring technology, saw the blast in real time.

The North Korean regime fired two ballistic missiles from Pyongyang airport on Monday, demonstrating the depth of Kim Jong-un’s arsenal, say analysts.

Two teenagers have been arrested in England in connection with the gunman was killed in the Sunday stand-off.

In the five years since California voters approved a legal market for marijuana, farms have sprouted but say they can’t survive on legal pot alone.

The traditional night-time celebration takes place in San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain.

A growing trend to contract COVID-19 at a “convenient” time has health officials worried.

Friends and associates of the pair say their “easy warmth” suggested an intimate relationship in the past.

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said his nation could not understand Australia’s treatment of the unvaccinated world tennis number one.

Prince Harry has filed a claim for a judicial review against the British government’s decision not to let him personally pay for police protection while in the UK.

The case could result in the former president and opposition leader being banned from politics.

The country has so far been free of the disease.

The people of Tonga witnessed a catastrophic event. We must hope there are no further eruptions.

The extent of damage in Tonga following a volcanic eruption remains unknown, with authorities yet to make contact with some coastal areas and smaller islands.

Rodrigo Duterte’s government will acquire a shore-based anti-ship missile system from India to beef up its navy.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in her lawsuit accusing the British royal of sexually abusing her at age 17.

Donald Trump has set the scene for a fiery midterm election year at his first rally for 2022. But there are signs some Republicans are not behind him.

Cerruti gave Giorgio Armani his break, gave Hollywood movie stars style and was even the fashion designer for a Formula 1 team.

At least three hostages were believed to be still inside the synagogue, when the siege finally ended.

Doctors thought “space anaemia” was a temporary problem, but new research shows it could interfere with future planned missions.

Some scientists are warning we may be underestimating the potential for the virus to do more damage.

New court documents show the royal’s defence team wants to interview two Australians over his accuser’s “false memories”. Her team requested other witnesses.

Four people in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, were swept into the water, and two were taken to a hospital, a spokeswoman from the local fire department said.

Alec Baldwin has surrendered his mobile phone to authorities as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall, a law enforcement official said.

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Fresh from imperilling one Olympic Games in Tokyo last year, COVID-19 has its tentacles around another.

The 33-year-old has emerged as a key witness, as the Duke of York alleges he was with his daughter at a Pizza Express in Woking on the night at the centre of the claims against him.

In an open letter, more than 270 medical professionals urge Spotify to stop “enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research”.

Agency officials noted some masks are harder to tolerate than others, and urged people to choose good-fitting masks that they will wear consistently.

“Why do you mistreat him, why do you harass him, as well as his family and a nation that is free and proud?” asked Serbia’s president.

While the pandemic forces schools to innovate, the vexed debate over whether to keep classrooms open has also exposed new fault lines between teachers, parents and governments.

Ask any Brit to conjure up their most vivid image of Boris Johnson and chances are it would be his stunt-gone-wrong during the London Olympics. Now, almost 10 years later, his career hangs by a far more tenuous wire.

A US official said Russia has already positioned a group of operatives to conduct “a false-flag operation” in eastern Ukraine, as a pretext for an invasion.

The office of Britain’s prime minister has apologised to the Queen for two parties held at Downing Street the night before she buried her husband Prince Philip and when the country was in mourning.

A New York judge has given the green light for a civil trial to go ahead against the prince. What legal avenues are open to him now?

A United Nations panel of experts that monitors sanctions on North Korea has accused Pyongyang of using stolen funds to support its nuclear and ballistic missile programs to circumvent sanctions.

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov raised the stakes over Ukraine by saying he could not exclude the possibility of a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the US rose.

In announcing that Prince Andrew’s “military affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to the Queen”, Buckingham Palace made clear that they will never be returned.