Renee Zellweger was crowned best actress at the Oscars on Sunday for her portrait of Hollywood legend Judy Garland in "Judy," a biographical drama exploring the singer's personal and professional turmoil at the end of her life.

A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come.

“Parasite” is the first non-English language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards.

A Russian plane carrying 100 people crash-landed on its belly in the north of the country after problems with its landing gear yesterday, the company and officials said, adding no one was seriously hurt.

Two American troops were killed and six others wounded by an Afghan soldier armed with a machine gun, the US military confirmed yesterday. The incident occurred late Saturday at a base in Sherzad district, in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan.

Syrian regime forces yesterday were set to retake a key motorway connecting the capital Damascus to second city Aleppo following

Talks between representatives of Libya’s warring parties in Geneva this week ended Saturday with no deal on a ceasefire but the UN has

A soldier angry over a property deal gone sour killed at least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned four locations in and around the northeastern Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima before he was shot dead early yesterday.

President Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal has delivered the White House a fresh coat of power, sparking worries over the rise of an “imperial presidency.”

African leaders yesterday condemned US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan as illegitimate, taking

Thousands of people stranded aboard a cruise ship in Hong Kong for five days were allowed to disembark

African heads of state yesterday gathered at the headquarters of the African Union for a summit meeting due to focus on how the body

Israel has begun to draw up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards yesterday unveiled a short-range ballistic missile that they said can be powered by a “new generation” of engines designed to put satellites into orbit.

After the shortest awards season in decades, the 92nd annual Academy Awards will get underway Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The red carpet is being rolled out two to three weeks earlier than usual in a bid to freshen up a ceremony and potentially boost ratings.

A Thai soldier who killed at least 26 people before being shot dead in a mall by commandos goes on rampage because of a debt dispute, the kingdom's premier says, offering the first official motive for the "unprecedented" shooting spree.

Eight people have been killed, dozens hurt and property burned during clashes in southern Kazakhstan, prompting concern Saturday

Tropical cyclone Damien lashed northwestern Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region yesterday, downing trees and forcing locals to heed

The Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 700 people across the country opened another

Israel has escalated a trade war with the Palestinians by stopping their agricultural exports through Jordan, Palestinian Agriculture