Amid expectation that President Xi Jinping might visit to celebrate 25 years of Chinese rule, the stock market - and people’s moods - are looking up.

Three foreign fighters captured by Russian-backed forces while fighting in Ukraine have been sentenced to death.

A committee investigating the US Capitol attack has laid bare its initial findings.

Recent interceptions near Christmas Island are the first since January 2020. Chances are they won’t be the last.

Actor and Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey has eulogised victims of his hometown's school shooting in a call at the White House to change gun laws.

Public hearings into the January 6 Capitol riots have begun, with testimony from Ivanka Trump and Republican Liz Cheney.

Three months into his invasion of Ukraine, the Russian president drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and his own modern-day ambitions.

“Those who invaded our capital and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election was stolen.”

Beyond the slick production and media hype, the select committee investigating the January 6 US Capitol attack has a clear set of goals.

Three people have been killed at a mass shooting in the US state of Maryland.

“Nothing would be more dangerous than adding a French disorder on top of a world disorder, as proposed by extremists,” the French president said referring to the war in Ukraine.

The House Committee investigation into the riots in Washington DC on 6 January, 2021 is holding the first of a series of public hearings today.

The Australian served as economics advisor to leader Aung San Suu Kyi when her government was deposed in an army coup 16 months ago. He’s been in prison since.

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After an initial burst of shooting from the gunman, no police officer went near the door again for more than 40 minutes, instead hanging back.

A rescue mission has been launched to save two factory workers who fell into a vat of chocolate.

The series began in front of mediocre crowds amid a scandal over its links to the Saudi regime, which has attracted fierce criticism for human rights abuses.

It’s an Orwellian and cowardly move - suppressing rather than heralding the news.

The Big Issue magazine offers homeless individuals the opportunity to earn an income through its sale to the public.

Two British men and one Moroccan man have been sentenced to death by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.