The $480m US-built pier has been welcomed by aid groups, but there is a fear it may be diverting attention from the surging humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The video from 2016 is the latest in a months-long series of public allegations and revelations of physical and sexual violence against the hip-hop mogul.

Dozens of Australian parents and children have been caught in this outdated, cruel system. Now the Japanese government has finally relented.

Nancy Pelosi was in Washington when David DePape went to her San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband Paul with a hammer.

The museum had not yet opened, and I was following instructions to catwalk, hip bump and point in the grand room where Louis XIV once held plays and balls.

For the hard right of the Republican Party, disgraced president Richard Nixon made only one mistake: resigning. Their new hero would never do that.

Itzik Gelernter, Shani Louk and Amit Buskila were killed by Hamas while fleeing the Nova music festival, an outdoor dance party near the Gaza border.

A man accused of shooting the Slovakian prime minister has been charged with attempted murder.

Indonesian authorities have been hunting accused drug trafficker Gregor Johann Haas since December last year. They arrested him on Wednesday with help from Philippine police.

Australian parents of children abducted by their ex-partners in Japan say watershed reforms enabling joint custody don’t address the root cause of the issue.

This week, the tropical Pacific holiday destination erupted amid tensions with the French government in Paris over voting rights.

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As Russia advances and Ukraine’s manpower decreases, the US and its allies are getting ready to do more to stop the war.

Putin’s two-day state visit to one of his strongest allies comes just as his country’s forces pressed an offensive in the most significant border incursion since the full-scale Ukraine invasion began.

Bodycam video has been released showing a police officer helping a lost girl to find her family on a Florida beach.

A teenager who vanished 26 years ago in Algeria has been rescued from his neighbour's cellar.

Donald Trump's lawyers try to demolish Michael Cohen's testimony implicating the former president.

Man arrested at the scene of an assassination plot on Slovakia's Prime Minister charged with murder.

French Government sending 1000 additional security personnel to New Caledonia as a state of emergency is imposed.

Some people, not all Trump supporters, are so keen to witness history, they are paying others by the hour to save them a place in the queue.

Scott Morrison, like Donald Trump, may appeal to America’s white evangelicals, but a former US president’s humbler approach would resonate more with the many women who are losing their religion.

An airline worker had a nasty fall after portable steps were removed from an aircraft in Indonesia.

The attempted assassination shocked the small central European nation, with leaders blaming the attack in part on extreme political polarisation that has divided the country.

Shooting leaves Prime Minister of Slovakia in life-threatening condition.

Donald Trump signals his backing for AUKUS defence deal in meeting with former prime minister Scott Morrison.