In a strident speech that escalated Beijing’s rhetoric towards Taiwan, Li Shangfu said China would face threats with shotguns.

The British PM will turn to his longtime ally, Lynton Crosby, to help save his leadership in the wake of the ‘Partygate’ scandal.

The move comes after the former US president was arrested, fingerprinted and had his mugshot taken at the Fulton County jail last week.

Claims and counterclaims of atrocities, killings and bombings and dashed hope of a ceasefire make it harder to separate heroes from villains in the Gaza war.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

In the final decision of the UN-backed war crimes tribunal, Khieu Samphan failed to overturn convictions for his part in one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century.

Photographs of retired optometrist Terry Sanderson riding camels in Morocco and trekking Machu Pichu have been tendered as evidence by Gwyneth Paltrow’s legal team.

In a subterranean compound deep below the Gaza Strip the five cells with barred doors had clearly been constructed long before October 7.

A number of drink-driving acquittals have resulted from a rare condition known as auto-brewery syndrome, in which a person’s gut effectively brews alcohol inside the body.

Eric Trump told Fox News the raid was connected to documents sought by the National Archives. The agency has been investigating the removal of classified documents from the White House.

The leaders will meet amid conflict over the disputed region of Kashmir.

The changes of a decade ago did not give Myanmar a perfect democracy. But it did pave the way for today’s young protesters: keenly aware of the past, social media-savvy, and resilient. They need the world to stand with them.

The Chilean aviation authority will examine the sudden altitude drop of a Sydney-to-Auckland flight over the Tasman Sea, as the flight data and voice recordings are seized.

The Israeli strikes appeared to be the first on Yemeni soil since the war began in October, and they threatened to open a new front in the region as Israel battles proxies of Iran.

Critics say the law on insulting the monarchy, an offence known as lèse-majesté, is often wielded as a tool to quash political dissent.

If its new president-elect keeps his promises to safeguard the rainforest, Brazil could have a major impact on the global fight against climate change.

Donald Trump’s violent nihilism is exposed in his latest video. The Australian Electoral Commission would expunge such an image, but Trump’s worst outrages are protected by the US First Amendment.

A selection of photographs from around the world by Fairfax picture editors.

There has been no progress on the full opening of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt as the conflict enters its tenth day.

As China ramps up hostilities in the Taiwan Strait, citizens in the island democracy are joining self-defence groups, fearing one day soon they will become civilian resistance to a communist invasion.

Protesters blame Netanyahu for the failures of October 7, while some Israelis have grown tired of military service exemptions for the nation’s ultra-Orthodox Jews.

While Conservatives who lost their seats are blaming Johnson, the results reflect the continuation of a broader shift that all liberal democracies are facing around the world. 

Former US President Donald Trump has been ordered by a jury to pay writer E Jean Carroll $US83.3 million ($126.65 million) in his defamation trial.

Keir Starmer does not have the charisma of Boris Johnson or Tony Blair, but charisma in politicians is much overrated.

After weeks of warnings, lava is spewing into the air in Iceland again as a volcano just south of the nation’s capital erupted for the fourth time since December.