Largely dormant for the last two years, Sicily's volcano erupted for the first time this year.

10 Downing has brushed aside the White House's escalating attacks on the media, including the BBC, saying how the Trump administration treats the press is a matter for them.

The Syrian air force deliberately bombed a United Nations humanitarian aid convoy in September in a "meticulously planned" attack that amounted to a war crime, the UN said.

Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, 59, was the second-ranking official and was a son-in-law to al-Qaeda's founder, Osama bin Laden.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik lost a human rights case on Wednesday when an appeals court overturned a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman.

Fillon says he 'will not surrender' after postponing a major campaign event and calling an emergency press conference.

British DJ David Taylor has apologised to the "beautiful country of Bali" over his role in the death of a police officer and said: "It fills me with the deepest sadness I have ever felt to be a part of the loss of a human life".

The appeal of its current leader, the peroxide blond Geert Wilders, seems a paradox even in the age of US President Donald Trump.

INTERACTIVE: A newly declassified report obtained by Fairfax Media reveals real reason behind Australia's involvement.

Scandals are cruel. Dogged by a trio of Russia-related rackets, Donald Trump learnt late on Wednesday local time that, inevitably, they control a president.

One of the meetings was a private conversation between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak that took place at the height of a Russian cyber campaign to upend the US presidential race.

Some policymakers in the Netherlands and Uruguay have suggested capping the active ingredient THC content to 15 per cent.

Republicans were so relieved that Donald Trump could deliver a "presidential" speech few seemed to notice conservatism had just taken a big hit.

A group of Indian men who believe that a woman's place is in the kitchen and not in public life have won a victory.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is intensifying his deadly crackdown on drugs.

The decision comes after Wilders' party slipped to second place in the Peilingwijzer poll of polls for the first time since November.

There's an old saying that elephants never forget. You also can say they almost never sleep.

The neurosurgeon-turned-politician did not face much pushback from Democrats during his confirmation process.

The White House dismissed as a partisan attack Democratic calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign, as pressure mounts over the revelations.

A Bali prosecutor has requested a former war correspondent who used hashish to help him cope with post traumatic stress disorder be jailed for a year.

Non-aligned Sweden ended compulsory military service in 2010 but military activity in the Baltic region has increased since then, prompting Sweden to step up its military preparedness.

The only North Korean arrested over the assassination of Kim Jong-nam will be deported from Malaysia after police were unable to gather sufficient evidence to charge him.

Senior Democrats are calling on US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions to resign.

After losing one high-profile appointee to the tumult over the Trump campaign's Russian connections, the President was determined not to lose another.

Following a practice which dates back to imperial times, petitioners stream into Beijing each year in the hope that their grievance will be rectified.