A passenger train derailed killing two people in Australia yesterday, with medics saying many more were being assessed for injuries.

Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its month-long bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for its sluggish response to the blazes.

A man stabbed a 70-year-old muezzin leading prayers inside a London mosque and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police and mosque officials say.

US President Donald Trump has promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court is told.

Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have reached an agreement to end a five-month long trade dispute, officials say.

London would be ready to host the 2020 Olympics if the outbreak of the coronavirus forced the Games to be moved from Tokyo, Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for mayor of the British capital, says.

Silicon Valley has been mourning a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut, copy and paste" command.

At least nine people have been killed in shootings targeting shisha bars in Germany that sparked a huge manhunt overnight before the suspected gunman was found dead in his home.

US Attorney General William Barr is considering resigning over President Donald Trump’s tweets about Justice Department investigations, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Tuesday.

Turkey and Russia exchanged warnings yesterday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened an “imminent” operation in Syria to end the regime’s brutal assault on the last rebel enclave.

In Syria’s Idlib, there’s no escaping the war, so Abdullah al-Mohammed says the only way he found to reassure his daughter Salwa was to turn the shelling into a game.

China yesterday ordered three reporters from American newspaper the Wall Street Journal to leave the country over what Beijing deemed a racist headline, in one of the harshest moves against foreign media in years.

Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will open on March 17, just two weeks after the embattled leader tries to secure re-

A helmet used by French soldiers in World War I provided better protection from overhead blasts than a modern American model, according to a US university study.

Two people in Iran tested positive yesterday for the deadly new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in the Islamic republic’s first cases

Libya’s unity government announced late Tuesday it would halt its participation in UN talks aimed at brokering a lasting ceasefire in the war-torn country where a fragile truce has been repeatedly violated.

With the danger growing from far-right extremists and torrents of threats against politicians, Germany plans to toughen online speech

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said the country was withdrawing from a 2015 United Nations resolution investigating alleged war crimes.

The World Health Organization yesterday hailed “tremendous progress” in the fight against the deadly new coronavirus since it emerged in China in December.

Britain will prioritise access for high-skilled workers from around the world in its post-Brexit points-based immigration system, the government said on Tuesday, setting out its plans to put an end to a reliance on “cheap labour from Europe”.