Students have led protests against gun violence in the US, urging lawmakers to do something in the wake of recent mass shootings in Texas and New York state.

Former McDonald’s restaurants will reopen in Moscow under new ownership and a new name, “Vkusno & tochka”, which means “Tasty & that’s it”.

Moscow has run out of rockets so is firing Cold War-era weapons, causing massive collateral damage, Britain says.

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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has held talks with China’s defence chief at a defence summit, the first face-to-face meeting between ministers from the countries in two years.

Surveillance footage of men assaulting women at a restaurant in China has unleashed a flood of outrage, renewing a debate over the country’s treatment of women.

About 1.6 million people in the United States are transgender, and 43 per cent of them are young adults or teenagers.

Demonstrators have rallied across the United States to demand laws curbing gun violence following last month’s massacre at a Texas school.

US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas kicked the case out of court to punish the woman’s attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, for “bad-faith conduct”.

Boris Johnson has ordered UK ministers to do everything they can to free two English men sentenced to death by Russians in Ukraine.

Donald Trump has lashed out at allegations that he planned a coup, following the first public hearing into the Capitol attack.

Despite his fiery words, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles insisted Australia would be ‘respectful’ of China. ‘We all need to live together.’

The president acknowledged that the possibility of Putin launching an invasion may have seemed far-fetched: “I understand why they didn’t want to hear it.”

Trudeau’s addictions minister said the new messages were aimed at young people who missed graphic warnings on packages when offered cigarettes at parties.

The heir has been embarrassed that his scathing views of Britain’s controversial plan to send illegal arrivals to Rwanda has been made public.

Justin Bieber shared an Instagram video in which he shows that half his face is paralysed, from a rare virus.

Four decades ago, a baby was left at a church by cult members. Now DNA detective work has identified her as ‘baby Holly’, missing since her parents’ murder.

The US will lift the COVID-19 testing requirement for international travellers.

The WHO’s call for more research into the virus’ possible lab origins is a sharp reversal of the agency’s initial assessment.

Otoy, a Ukrainian rapper-turned-volunteer soldier, is putting the war into words and basslines, tapping out lyrics under Russian shelling on his phone.