Like France’s military emperor Napoleon conquering Europe, Russia on Putin’s watch has waged a series of skilful campaigns expanding its reach across the internet and social media. Until now.

Jakarta’s ambition to be a global player is under the spotlight as it wrestles with the G20 presidency following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mariupol is under continuous bombardment but Ukrainian forces say they have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv.

Military analysts had expected Russian forces to quickly destroy Ukraine’s military aircraft. Instead, “Top Gun”-style aerial dogfights now rage above the country.

The Boeing 737-800 was travelling at close to the speed of sound in the moments before it slammed into a hillside in China on Monday.

The Ukraine - Russia crisis drags onto late March.

Prince Harry is suing a newspaper over what he believes is a defamatory article that told “how Harry tried to keep his legal fight over bodyguards secret...”

Up to 3 million households faced the threat of blackouts on Tuesday night, as utility Tokyo Electric Power Co warned of tight supply and surging demand as snow fell.

Police said the attacker careened his car into a cyclist and stabbed five people across a swath of the city centre of Beersheba.

Couy Griffin, an elected official from New Mexico, was found guilty of illegally entering restricted US Capitol grounds on January 6.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison on fraud charges, in a ruling that will keep President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent out of active politics for years ahead.

Cases against military figures including junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing are being prepared to hand to the Australian Federal Police.

Ukraine’s armed forces said Russian forces would continue to attack critical infrastructure using “high-precision weapons and indiscriminate munitions”.

The flight’s almost vertical descent matched the fate of two previous disasters.

Researchers reviewed the records of more than 181,000 US Department of Veterans Affairs patients diagnosed with COVID-19 over 17 months.

Hospital staff are on standby and emergency workers pushed through the night, but no passengers have yet arrived.

The fear is that if Putin feels cornered in the conflict, he might choose to detonate one of his lesser nuclear arms — breaking the taboo set 76 years ago after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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The royal’s trip aims to strengthen Britain’s ties with Commonwealth countries, but it’s off to a rocky start.

Putin’s army has shown itself to be militarily inept since invading Ukraine. With soldier morale fading, the systematic destruction of Mariupol is no longer a military objective.

After a Kyiv shopping mall is devastated by Russian bombing, Ukrainian families try to get through the day in evacuation centres.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 400 civilians were taking shelter at an art school in the Sea of Azov port city when it was struck by a Russian bomb.

There’s an art to crossing checkpoints in Ukraine. Approach slowly, but not too slowly, and have your documents ready. Dim your lights; do not spook the soldiers.

She comes from a family of law enforcement but is related to a convicted felon. The first black woman to be named to the Supreme Court also acted alongside Matt Damon in university.

A picture might tell a thousand words but the tragic scenes captured by Kate Geraghty in Ukraine leave one speechless.

Without effective planning and protection principles, getting people out of harm’s way can lead to more displacement.

China faces its worst air disaster in three decades after a plane carrying 132 people plunged into mountains in the country’s south-east.

British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was recently freed from detention in Iran, had harsh words for the British government.

Shokrollah Jebeli, 83, had been held in Evin prison since January 2020, after he was detained over what appears to be a small financial dispute.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is already in Ukraine gathering evidence for a war crimes case against the Russian President and his troops.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk turned down the Russian demands, saying: “There can be no talk of any surrender, laying down of arms... just open the corridor”.

Over the past three weeks, thousands of posts appeared on Russian social media featuring schoolchildren posing for pictures forming Z and V-for-victory signs.

The moves could quieten some criticism from residents who have become increasingly frustrated with the city’s stringent measures, some of which have been in place for over two years.

Rowan Downing QC has accused the United Nations of an “attack upon the independence of the judiciary”.

The nation’s drive for a “big step back to normality” is an abysmal idea, federal state leaders say, as COVID cases hit a record high.

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More than four years after the Myanmar military forced the Rohingya from their homes, the US will use the word to describe the violent purge.

German police named convicted paedophile and rapist Christian Brueckner as the prime suspect in the case in 2020, but no charges have been laid.

Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days.

Dried into crystals and smoked, the venom provides a half-hour “hit” without the downside of hours of hallucinating and vomiting. 

Drone strikes hit the Yanbu Aramco Sinopec Refining Company, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and China Petrochemical Corporation.

There is significant capacity for a more incisive, collaborative, creative effort to pressure Myanmar’s illegitimate coup regime.

In the ruins of a village on the edge of the capital, the remains of the dead are ferried across a creek as they begin their final journey home.

With the backing of independence hero Xanana Gusmao, another of the country’s founding fathers was seeking a return to the post a decade after he last held it.

Nicknamed “Rental-san”, Shoji Morimoto has built a cult following by offering himself as a warm body who can simply be there.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the siege of Mariupol would go down in history for what he said were war crimes committed by Russian troops.

China’s health authorities reported its first COVID-19 deaths since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years.

The devastation continues in Ukraine as Russia targets cities in the country's west that were once seen as places of refuge amid the invasion.

Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous heatwaves, with parts of Antarctica and the Arctic 30 to 40 degrees warmer than average.

“Sometimes yellow is just yellow”, Russian authorities insisted.