Solomon Islands’ defiant Prime Minister sent Scott Morrison a text and letter before telling his parliament Australia’s concerns were “nonsense”.

The mayor of Mariupol says 160,000 people are still trapped and Russia is blocking attempts to evacuate them.

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam thinks he’s going home to his family. But he could be hanged within days in Singapore.

Ukrainian strategic thinking has so far outmanoeuvred Putin’s war machine. With massive amounts of military, diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian aid, Ukraine could even win this war.

Was the oligarch poisoned while trying to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia? If so, it would only be the latest twist in Abramovich’s bizarre history.

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, in Liverpool, now asks “all patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender”.

Ukraine forces re-take the town of Trostsyanets in Eastern Kyiv.

Several of the Arab participants also publicly pressed Israel on the need to create a sovereign Palestinian state, signalling that while they had normalised ties with Israel, they had not abandoned the Palestinian cause. 

Asked if his comments would anger Putin, Biden said: “I don’t care what he thinks. ... He’s going to do what he’s going to do.”

Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has drawn scrutiny for her text messages to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in which she repeatedly pressed Meadows to work aggressively to overturn Joe Biden’s lawful election...

Abramovich, sanctioned by Britain and the EU this month, was said to have shown symptoms including peeling skin on his face and hands, and red teary eyes.

Anti-feminists have called women “kimchi girls” – slang that suggests their boyfriends pay for them. Older women have been labelled “mum-roaches”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants PNG and Fiji to help convince the Solomon Islands to abandon its Beijing security deal - but PNG is also forging closer links.

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The Ukrainian President lashed out at the West’s “ping-pong about who and how should hand over jets” and other weapons while Russian missile attacks kill and trap civilians.

Will the Summit for Democracy address how borders have been rendered porous by technology, normalising the harassment of regime critics living in free societies?

Gallery: Ukraine - Russia crisis, March 28, 2022

As cases soar in the financial hub of 25 million people, authorities announced a four-day snap lockdown east of the Huangpu River - and then another in the west.

The former gymnast turned politician is widely believed to be the girlfriend, or possibly the wife, of Vladimir Putin. She is even rumoured to have given birth to four children.

The homicides appeared linked to the country’s notorious street gangs, who effectively control many neighbourhoods in El Salvador’s capital.

Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist who emerged from 27 years in prison to become South Africa’s first black president, was arrested in 1962 for conspiring to overthrow the white-minority government. 

Chinese authorities officially confirmed on Saturday that there were no survivors in the crash of a China Eastern 737-800 earlier this week with 132 people on board.

Lt Gen Yakov Rezanstev is the latest Russian commander killed during the invasion of Ukraine, in what analysts say has been an unusually successful tactic.

The White House proposal says the new tax would ensure that “the wealthiest Americans no longer pay a tax rate lower than teachers and firefighters”.

At the end of his tour of the Caribbean with Catherine, a humbled Prince William says it’s for Commonwealth countries to decide if he is ever to lead it.

There’s no doubt Joe Biden’s latest speech – delivered in the courtyard of a Polish palace that was attacked by the Nazi’s in 1939 – was one of the most significant of his presidency so far.

President Joe Biden said that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader after his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

There is a tectonic shift playing out within the family with a frail Queen remaining “chairman of the board, but Charles is now the CEO”.

Russian forces have taken control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of Kyiv region said on Saturday.

With the war in Ukraine now in its second month, the crisis shows no signs of abating.

Joe Trupia has no personal connection to the conflict raging thousands of kilometres from his home. But he knew he had to do something.

But the mayor of Chernihiv, in the north, says bombing has destroyed a bridge into the city and private homes on the outskirts, and isolated it from the capital.

Justice Clarence Thomas has already participated in one Supreme Court decision involving the 2020 US presidential election.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has upended wheat supplies and forced the West to come up with ways to make up for potentially devastating shortfalls.

The Australian was formally arrested a year ago on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas.

Temperatures in the region normally sit around -51 degrees at this time of year, but they were around 10 degrees earlier this month.

F1 says it has received safety guarantees to enable the event to proceed on Sunday, after a fuel depot near the track was bombarded.

Many question the value of the Commonwealth but a closed-doors session in London aimed at preventing conflict in Kenya could provide the answer.

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.

The planned security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands requires a rethink of some long-held ideas.

A 14-year-old fell to his death from a free-fall amusement park ride that is taller than the Statue of Liberty.

With stocks of such munitions running low, Russian forces were more likely to rely on unguided bombs and artillery, US official Colin Kahl said.

The US is still in “ongoing talks” with Beijing about dispatching an expert to participate in the investigation, as is standard when the planes involved are from American manufacturers.

Russian president Vladimir Putin started a war because he refused to accept the end of the Soviet empire and his blinkered view has a message for the West.

There is deep concern in Canberra, Wellington and Washington about the implications of a potential Chinese naval base right on Australia’s doorstep.

The father of Spain’s king may now be dragged to court in the UK to face allegations of spying and harassing a former lover.

Intensive poaching has slashed Malaysia’s tiger population to near extinction. Can a new program that uses locals as wildlife patrollers save them?

Employees of Russian agencies are accused of installing malware on more than 17,000 devices in oil, gas and nuclear power plants, utilities and power transmission companies.

The world’s most powerful leaders have made it clear they have no appetite for war. So, if Vladimir Putin doesn’t relent, where does that leave Ukraine?