Parents and unions have cautiously welcomed an overhaul of working-with-children checks but say more reforms are needed to ...

In February, acute watery diarrhoea accounted for less than 20 per cent of reported illnesses in Gaza. By July, it had surged ...

Flash floods have killed more than 200 people and left scores of others missing in India and Pakistan, as rescuers brought to ...

US President Donald Trump has departed Washington aboard Air Force One to head to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir ...

Half a century ago then prime minister Gough Whitlam poured a handful of soil into the hands of a man who had led an eight-year protest for the rights of his people. On August 16, 1975 Mr Whitlam ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned Pakistan that India will punish its neighbour if there are future attacks on ...

Delegates are angry and disappointed after negotiators working on a historic treaty to address plastic pollution failed ...

More than 100 people remain missing in Indian-controlled Kashmir a day after sudden heavy rain unleashed floods ...

Hezbollah has raised the spectre of civil war with a warning there will be "no life" in Lebanon if the government seeks to ...

Guitar-slinging singer Cait Jamieson adds a country flavour to Richard Marx's hit song Right Here Waiting when she appears on ...

Reality TV star Matt Wright was "hostile and abusive" to his helicopter pilots when they stopped crocodile-egg collecting ...

A shot of three girls hiding their faces with hand gestures has won the National Photographic Portrait Prize. It's the second ...