A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has been traced to a pet shop in Hong Kong, prompting the cull of 2000 hamsters. Authorities are also...

Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans,...

$A350m of debt owed to Iran by Sri Lanka will be settled in a never-before-seen contra arrangement. Sri Lanka, already grappling with a...

The Great Bell of the striking clock, or otherwise affectionately known as the iconic London tourist attraction, Big Ben, will bong for...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has decided to celebrate her first Christmas since the death of her husband the Duke of Edinburgh at...

A WTO panel says India provided domestic support to its sugarcane producers in excess of the maximum level of 10 per cent permitted by a...

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2021. This year Musk's electric car company...

Long-running protests by India's farmers will be called off after the government agreed to concede to a clutch of pending demands. The...

A Robbie Williams biopic will be filmed in Melbourne. The federal and Victorian governments on Friday confirmed Better Man will begin...

The US says it will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, after China pledged unspecified...

An 18-year-old British woman has said she is "very, very lucky" to have survived a crocodile attack while on holiday in Zambia. Amelie...

A Dutch man has died while trying to help three acquaintances whose car had landed in a ditch while they were driving under the influence...

Chinese authorities have hit back at the WTA after the women's tennis tour suspended all events in the country in support of missing...

Czech President Milos Zeman, who has COVID-19, has begun talks with ministerial candidates while in a transparent plastic box. The talks...

"Welcome to the Hotel Yorkshire Dale" doesn't quite have the same ring as 'Hotel California' but guests in the highland British pub are...

The shadow foreign minister, Penny Wong, has accused the government of “amping up” the prospect of conflict over Taiwan in order to...

Controversial farm laws that have sparked more than 12 months of sometimes violent protest in India are to be withdrawn, Prime Minister...

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agency says last month was the warmest October in the northern hemisphere since...

Australia needs to do more to help tens of millions of Afghans facing starvation and death just months after the Taliban seized control,...

There has been a radical shift in the international payments system: central banks are giving serious consideration to introducing...