I hadn’t thought about how the Indonesian capital might treat the Christmas season. Had I done so, I might have thought it would be pretty low-key.

As Syria faces an uncertain future, its interim leader is calling on those who fled abroad to return home.

The husband and father-of-three has turned himself in after being accused of staging a kayaking accident to fake his death so he could start a new life.

The announcement that a team from Papua New Guinea will enter the NRL competition is a smart play.

Susli, a vocal supporter of the Assad regime for more than a decade, blames Assad’s demise on a “treason revolution”.

While Donald Trump’s first inner circle may have tested democracy through its sheer chaos, the new guard presents a much greater threat that expands well beyond America.

The indefinite ban will apply to children with gender dysphoria and comes after a judge said young people were caught up in “stormy social discourse”.

The world is carefully watching to see if Syria’s new rulers can stabilise the country and avoid unleashing violent revenge.

Police allege suspect Luigi Mangione's fingerprints match one found at the scene of a health insurance CEO's death in New York.

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Missing Hawaii woman Hannah Kobayashi has been found.

Authorities have said that writings found in the possession of Luigi Mangione, who police allege gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, hinted at a hatred of corporate greed.

Bashar al-Assad may still be quaffing champagne and slurping caviar in his new life of luxury in exile in Russia.

Donald Trump’s Palm Beach palace has effectively become a shadow White House as a roll-call of global statesmen, businessmen and political loyalists fly in to pay court, all striving to serve in, or influence, the president-elect.

Speculation about a break-up is clouding the nomination of Kimberly Guilfoyle, who has been engaged to the younger Trump since 2020.

The man accused of a the murder of a US healthcare boss Luigi Mangione was reported missing by his mother more than three weeks ago, before the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The brazen killing of a chief executive in New York prompted widespread debate about corporate greed. Now debate has shifted to those obsessed with the alleged killer’s looks.

The search comes after the country’s two highest-ranking police officers were detained amid the fallout from Yoon’s short-lived martial law decree last week.

Tesla is cutting the price of its Model X and Model S cars in China, in a shift in strategy that will see it take more of a hie United States.

An angry customer was captured on video driving through a Utah dealership store window.