Rejected by his father, Kim Jong-nam led a life of isolation and fear until he died - probably on the orders of his brother.

The parents of eight transgender children from across the US have requested a meeting with Donald Trump over his policy on protections for transgender students.

Police say 12 people were seriously injured when a vehicle ploughed into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade in the US city of New Orleans.

In an entertaining annual letter the legendary investor lets fly and high fee gouging money managers.

US immigration authorities are barring a 21-year-old cinematographer who worked on "The White Helmets", a documentary nominated for an Academy Award.

Trump's approach to planting gossip in New York tabloids is proving poor training for wrestling with Washington reporters pursuing issues of national importance.

Brazil's increasingly powerful evangelical church and its progressive movements are both pushing to refine Carnaval to match their often opposing priorities.

US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he will not attend the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.

Thailand's defamation and "computer crime" laws to be put to the test as the BBC backs its correspondent, who faces a five-year prison sentence.

Malaysia has declared its international airport a "safe zone" after completing a sweep of the terminal where the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was assassinated.

Up to 10 surrogacy-born babies with Australian biological parents are stuck in legal limbo in Cambodia after a crackdown on commercial surrogacy there last year.

Max Baucus expressed frustration with the Obama administration's weakness but also accused Donald Trump of having 'not even graduated from high school' on China.

Some fled with little more than the clothes they were wearing, terrified that the militants of Islamic State would come for them next.

Key Republicans, including Trump allies, are talking up the gravity of the President's Russia crisis amidst signs of heightened paranoia at the White House.

US President Donald Trump has possibly attracted more attention to a New York Times advertisement than he may have intended.

If fact checkers cannot prove that a story published or broadcast by another news media outlet is false, it will not be featured in the weekly airing of StopFake News.

Huge mudslides from November's earthquakes have wiped out all organisms living in the seabed of the Kaikoura Canyon, which used to be a hotbed of life.

Tunisia has been hailed as an Arab Spring success story. But its handling of prisoners and returned jihadists is becoming a worrying failure, say rights groups.

Nemtsov authored an excoriating report on Putin's rule and, shortly before being killed, was working on a report examining Russian military's role in Ukraine.

A new poll suggests that while people may be broadly unhappy with the mainstream media, they still think it's more credible than Trump.

​President Donald Trump's initial address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night may be the most anticipated in memory. Not, as Trump would claim, because he's so compelling. Rather it's because, when it comes to substance, we don't know who he is.

Former ABC managing director David Hill has held back tears as he told a British inquiry of the sexual abuse and suffering of children sent from the UK to work at Australian farm schools.

The Philippines on Monday condemned the "barbaric beheading" of a German captive by Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf militants, who posted a video of the killing after a deadline for a ransom passed.

Former President George W. Bush, in his first interview since the start of Donald Trump's administration, said he sees a need for an investigation into the Trump team's ties to Russia and voiced skepticism about his successor's approach to immigration and the media.

Jakarta: A suspected terrorist believed to have links to ISIS was shot dead by police on Monday after a bomb was detonated in the Indonesian city of Bandung.