New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby ...

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy is challenging Vladimir Putin to face-to-face talks, but the Kremlin isn't saying who will ...

German authorities accuse three Ukrainians of planning arson and explosive attacks on railway freight transport to Ukraine ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs' criminal trial is entering its third day with his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura expected to resume ...

Pope Leo XIV has pledged to make "every effort" for peace and offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying ...

US President Donald Trump has met Syria's president in Saudi Arabia and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel, ...

Anthony Albanese will travel to Indonesia on Wednesday for the first overseas visit of his second term to hold talks with ...

A court in Russia has convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of ...

Israel has escalated its bombardment in Gaza despite Palestinian hopes that President Donald Trump's Middle East trip ...

THE REDEVELOPMENT of the Ibis Hotel in Newcastle West will deliver some affordable housing to the city's centre, as well as ...

Skoda Australia says it'll have limited allocation of its new Elroq EV coming Down Under for the remainder of 2025 after its ...

Waste workers found a food dehydrator had been dumped at a tip by a woman in the days after a poisonous mushroom lunch was ...