US President-elect Donald Trump has named Elon Musk to a role aimed at creating a more efficient government, handing even more influence to the world's richest man.
China's top leaders have urged "all-out efforts" to treat those injured in a car attack in southern China, one of the deadliest incidents in the country's recent history.
The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has resigned "in sorrow", saying he had failed to ensure a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps.
A police officer told an elderly woman with dementia symptoms they were "not playing this game" before he tasered her in dramatic footage played to his criminal trial.
The family of a kindergarten worker killed when a truck smashed into a Victoria pre-school says she was the light of their lives and they will "miss her like crazy".
US climate envoy John Podesta has urged governments to keep faith in the country's promise to combat global warming, saying Donald Trump can slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels when he returns as President in January.
Israel's finance minister says he hopes Israel will extend sovereignty into the occupied West Bank in 2025 and that he will push the government to engage the incoming Trump administration to gain Washington's support.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has withdrawn his latest children's book from sale after criticism it stereotyped members of Australia's Indigenous community.
At least 40 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday, including two dozen when a residential building in the northern town of Jabalia was hit
At least two people were injured and buildings were damaged in an overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine's southern region of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
Nancy Pelosi says if President Joe Biden had ended his re-election bid sooner, the Democratic Party could have held a competitive process to choose his replacement.
The Princess of Wales has attended a Remembrance Day event in London, in her latest public engagement after undergoing preventive treatment for cancer this year.
The US has charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump.
As US election exit polls began to point to a second presidency for Donald Trump, many Americans were already looking for another kind of exit: moving abroad.
Donald Trump's Republicans are projected to pick up another US Senate seat and appear to be retaining their narrow hold on the House of Representatives, putting them on track to control...