The Tasmanian man had been providing humanitarian aid when he was wounded and killed. Read more.
The garbage man discovered the baby after carefully opening the bin bag found in a dumpster. Read more.
The US vice-president makes the plea as she attends the funeral of a victim of a mass shooting.
As the price of wheat shoots up, Uganda's President Museveni urges people to eat cassava instead.
Colombians could be about to elect their first left-wing leader ever in a polarised presidential poll.
The enduring popularity of Coke Studio Pakistan in India has surprised even its creators.
Those viral moments of unusual animal behaviour provide valuable insight for researchers as well.
As prices rise, oil and gas firms in the US want to capitalise - but the industry has changed.
Atiku Abubakar beats other candidates to lead the Peoples Democratic Party into February's poll.
The creators of the beloved BBC comedy and a hit American remake discuss their shows' secrets.
Investigators in Texas are seeking to determine how critical mistakes were made in the response to the deadly Uvalde shooting, including why nearly 20 police officers remained outside a grade school classroom as children placed panicked emergency calls for help.Why the officers waited in the hallway nearly an hour before entering and fatally shooting the gunman is at the heart of an ongoing probe by the Texas Department of Public Safety into the massacre of 19 children and two teachers in the de
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's class warfare comedy Triangle of Sadness has won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, giving Ostlund one of cinema's most prestigious prizes for the second time.Ostlund had already won Cannes' top honour for his film The Square in 2017.
At least 35 people have died amid heavy rainfall in northeastern Brazil, as downpours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the South American nation's fourth major flooding event in five months.In the state of Pernambuco, at least 33 people had died as of Saturday afternoon, as rains provoked landslides that wiped away hillside urban neighbourhoods, according to the state's official Twitter account.
Flights are cancelled, long queues form at London's St Pancras station, and delays mount at Dover.
A stampede at a church charity event in southern Nigeria has left 31 people dead including a pregnant woman and several children.The stampede at the event on Saturday organised by the Kings Assembly Pentecostal church in Rivers state involved people who came to the church's annual "Shop for Free" charity program, according to Grace Iringe-Koko, a police spokeswoman.
Russian forces have stepped up their assault on the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk after claiming to have captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman, as Kyiv intensifies its calls for longer-range weaponry from the West to help it fight back in the Donbas region.Slow, solid Russian gains in recent days point to a subtle momentum shift in the war, now in its fourth month.
"Please send the police now," one girl pleaded as officers waited over an hour to storm the classroom.
Mr Trump rejects calls for gun control, saying Americans must be allowed to defend themselves from "evil".
China's foreign minister has signed a deal with Samoa to strengthen diplomatic relations.China is building on a security pact it recently signed with Solomon Islands, which has alarmed the US and its allies such as Australia as they fear a stepped-up military presence by Beijing.
A horrifying intercepted phone call from a Russian soldier details atrocities some invaders are committing in Ukraine.
All four members appear in public for the first time in 14 years, as they launch their Voyage show.
Most Singaporeans support the death penalty - but one's man's execution has revived the debate.
The bull shark is categorised as 'vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
A woman at a birthday party drew her pistol and left the gunman with multiple wounds, police say.
The protest comes days after the third deadliest school shooting in US history. Read more.