Indonesian officials have called for an investigation and an audit of state energy company Pertamina's facilities after a fire at its storage facility killed 15.
Gunmen in military uniforms have fatally shot a governor and five civilians while the provincial leader was meeting villagers at his home in the central Philippines.
Denmark's parliament has passed a much-debated bill put forward by the new government to scrap a public holiday to help finance increased defence spending.
Canada has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from government-issued devices, saying it presents an "unacceptable" level of risk to privacy and security.
The European Union has vowed to increase pressure on Russia "until Ukraine is liberated" as it adopted a tenth package of sanctions on Russia, a day after the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison by a judge after a jury convicted him of the rape and sexual assault of an Italian actor and model.
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck southern Turkey near the Syrian border, setting off panic and further damaging buildings two weeks after the country's worst earthquake in modern history left tens of thousands dead.
The New Zealand government expects Cyclone Gabrielle to come with a bill of more than $10 billion ($A9.1 billion), rivalling the costs of the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes.
Australia will host a key upcoming international naval exercise for the first time as the government hails the strength of its relationship with India.
Rescue teams have pulled three people alive from under collapsed buildings in Turkey, 11 days after an earthquake that killed more than 45,000 people, left millions homeless and sparked a huge relief effort.
A gunman has gone on a rampage in a small Mississippi town, killing his former wife and five other people in three locations before sheriff's deputies arrested him.
Two women have been pulled from the rubble in Turkey's southern city of Kahramanmaras and a mother and two children were rescued from the city of Antakya, as rescue efforts shift to getting relief to survivors nine days after a deadly earthquake.
Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film One Million Years B.C. would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was 82.
More survivors have been pulled from the rubble as hopes fade following Turkey's devastating quake, while attention turns to the thousands left homeless.
A national state of emergency has been declared in New Zealand after widespread damage from Cyclone Gabrielle, the country's worst storm in generations.
An "unidentified object" has been shot down with a missile by US fighter jets over Lake Huron, the fourth object brought down over North American airspace.
Residents of Australia's Norfolk Island are cleaning up after Cyclone Gabrielle, heading to New Zealand, battered the tiny external territory in the Pacific Ocean.
Rescuers have pulled a survivor from earthquake rubble, six days after one of the worst natural disasters to hit parts of Syria and Turkey, as the death toll exceeded 28,000 and looked set to rise further.
A US fighter jet has shot down over Alaska a high-altitude object that was the size of a small car, on the order of President Joe Biden, the White House says.
President Tayyip Erdogan has admitted there are problems with his government's initial response to a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey amid anger from those left destitute and frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams.
The Australian government says Dutch prosecutors have provided conclusive evidence of Russia 's involvement in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight 17.
Four Australians are unaccounted following the devastating earthquake in Turkey as the federal government sends a search and rescue team to assist recovery efforts.
Overwhelmed rescuers are struggling to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose past 4400, with despair mounting and the scale of the disaster hampering relief efforts.
Fossil fuel companies continue to make mind-boggling amounts of new, single-use plastic while doing almost nothing to reuse what already exists, a new analysis says.
