Hours before a parliamentary vote that could have brought down Prime Minister Bob Loughman's government, he engineered parliament to be dissolved, triggering elections two years earlier than expected. The opposition -- backed by 17 members of gover...

The country's economy tanked following a military coup last year and has been further rattled by the junta's attempts to seize foreign exchange as well as erratic rules governing businesses and imports. Living standards are being hammered by global...

On the second day of hearings at the Federal Court, the prosecutors pressed on with their case despite Najib's claim that he was not being given a fair trial. Najib, 69, has mounted a high-stakes final appeal, which could see him imprisoned, or acq...

Xiao, one of China's richest people when he was allegedly abducted from a Hong Kong hotel in 2017, reportedly had close connections to the upper echelons of the ruling Communist Party. There had been no official word about Xiao -- who is a Canadian...

The mercury has soared beyond 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Sichuan province this week, fueling massive demand for air conditioning and drying up reservoirs in a region reliant on dams for most of its electricity. Factories including a joi...

The sport's world governing body this week suspended the national federation "due to undue influence from third parties" -- member associations must be free from legal and political interference. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been pl...

"It's a dream destination," said Yves Gleyze, a veteran off-the-beaten-track French tourist in his 60s as he arrived at the airport in Ilulissat. Visitors to the third-biggest town in the Danish autonomous territory are met by a rugged, austere lan...

The first of 200 new buses are expected to start service on Mumbai's busy roads from December, joining nearly 400 single-floor EVs already in operation. India -- home to 1.4 billion people -- is the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, and the gov...

Overnight missiles hammer the provincial capital. Water lines have been cut and Kim's own office was plucked from existence by a missile strike on the building in the first weeks of the war. When the block was bombed in March and Kim was announcing...

Scholz will testify for the second time to the parliamentary committee in Hamburg, which is probing whether local political figures helped a bank to avoid paying back falsely claimed tax rebates. Scholz was the mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, w...

The 75-year-old Weisselberg, who served as CFO of the Trump Organization from 2005 to 2021, pleaded guilty to 15 counts of tax fraud, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. Weisselberg admitted his involvement in a 15-year sch...

Numerous bodies have been revealed this year at rapidly receding Lake Mead, with Mafia-watchers speculating the body in the barrel was the handiwork of gangsters from the gambling haven's crime-ridden past. Police have revealed few details about th...

The rally across markets from their June lows appears to have run out of steam this week after minutes from the Fed's most recent meeting showed it was determined to keep lifting borrowing costs until prices were brought under control. The gains h...

The London teenager who won the Grand Slam from a qualifying start without dropping a set has her mind set on scratching a particular non-tennis itch. "I've really been craving a bagel for the last year," the 19-year-old said after Thursday's 7-5, ...

The Pacific nation has been lashed by wild weather with the Nelson-Tasman district on the South Island bearing the brunt after 75 centimetres (29 inches) of rain reportedly fell over three days. Several streets in the city of Nelson were flooded af...