European diplomats in Washington are frantically working to set up meetings with allies of former president Donald Trump as they prepare for his potential return to the White House, sources familiar with the effort tell CNN.
At face-to-face (...)
Israel's Supreme Court has temporarily halted a government plan to send a group of Palestinian patients being treated in East Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hospitals back to Gaza.
The decision follows a petition by the Israeli non-profit organization (...)
Uber has agreed to pay A$271.8m ($178.3m; £140m) to settle a lawsuit in Australia, according to a law firm for taxi operators and drivers.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers filed the class action on behalf of over 8,000 taxi and hire car owners and (...)
A man has been killed and another critically injured following a gold mine collapse in Australia.
The pair were hit by falling rocks 500m (1,640ft) underground at the site in Ballarat, near Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon local time.
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An Australian man has been charged with murdering a woman who was last seen leaving her home a month ago.
Samantha Murphy has not been seen since she went out from her home in Ballarat, Victoria, for a run on 4 February.
Her disappearance led to a (...)
Firefighters in Australia are battling a huge blaze that has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people amid some of the worst fire conditions the country has seen in recent years.
Hot, dry and windy conditions have created "extreme to (...)
Nearly half a million homes were left without power in the Australian state of Victoria after a storm knocked out parts of the network.
Videos posted online showed torrential rain and gale-force winds uprooting trees and blowing entire sheds (...)
Taylor Swift has now won 14 Grammy Awards in total
LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift stole the show at this year's Grammy Awards, becoming the first performer to win the prize for album of the year four times.
The superstar had previously been tied on (...)
More than 100 passengers and crew have fallen ill while on a three-week leg of a 107-night cruise with Cunard Cruise Line on the Queen Victoria, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the report, (...)
تعد المدرسة الشكلية من المدارس النقدية في دراسات الأدب، ويُركز أصحابها في العناصر الفنية والشكلية في الأعمال الأدبية عوضاً من التركيز في المحتوى أو الرسائل الاجتماعية. والمفهوم الرئيس من هذه النظرية هو أن قيمة العمل الأدبي تأتي من هيكله وتنظيمه (...)
"Australia Day is Dead!" Indigenous activist Gwenda Stanley chants into the loudspeaker, as a crowd of thousands breaks into applause.
It's Australia's national day, but the crowd in central Sydney seethes in anger and cheers in solidarity with (...)
The UK is sending some of Ghana's "crown jewels" back home, 150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king.
A gold peace pipe is among 32 items returning under long-term loan deals, the BBC can reveal.
The Victoria & Albert Museum (...)
A century-old Captain James Cook statue has been cut down and a Queen Victoria monument covered in red paint in an apparent protest in Australia.
The late-night vandalism occurred in Melbourne on the eve of Australia Day and is under police (...)
"There is no 'red line'," in Hong Kong any more, says a 30-something humanities professor in the city.
"If they want to come after you, everything can be used as an excuse." He did not wish to reveal his name because of the repercussions that could (...)
Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan issued a state of emergency Thursday after a blast at an explosives store injured scores of people and brought the country to a standstill.
It is unclear if there were any casualties following the (...)
The Gold Coast has withdrawn its bid to host the next Commonwealth Games, ending any hope the event could still be held in Australia.
The coastal city hosted the 2018 Games, and mayor Tom Tate had unilaterally insisted it could do it again.
But the (...)
Blue whales, the largest known animals on Earth, are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago.
Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles captured footage of the whales in 2020 and 2021. It (...)
David Cameron has said he wants to support Prime Minister Rishi Sunak "at a hard time", after making a dramatic comeback to government in a major cabinet reshuffle.
The former prime minister has been appointed foreign secretary and accepted a (...)
Seven men have been charged over disorder on Armistice Day for offences including inciting racial hatred.
The Met Police said 145 people were arrested — the "vast majority" of whom were counter-protesters — and nine officers were injured on (...)
The Met Police has condemned "extreme violence from right-wing protesters" who it says set out to confront Saturday's pro-Palestinian march.
Nine officers were injured and 126 people arrested — the "vast majority" of whom were (...)
Millions of Australians were left without mobile and internet after a network failure at telecoms firm Optus.
The failure caused transport delays, cut hospital phone lines, and shut down payment systems.
Optus, the country's second-largest provider, (...)
An Australian woman charged with murdering three people in a suspected mushroom poisoning case is also accused of trying to murder her ex-partner on four occasions, court documents say.
Erin Patterson, 49, was charged with three counts of murder and (...)
An Australian woman has been charged with murder over the suspected mushroom poisoning deaths of three people.
Erin Patterson was arrested on Thursday morning and police have spent the day searching her home east of Melbourne.
Ms Patterson, 49, had (...)
An offshore firm helped create companies used by members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including one hiding the late mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's yacht, the BBC can reveal.
Seychelles-based Alpha Consulting also helped to form more than (...)
Australia's most serious bushfire season since its so-called "Black Summer" has turned fatal.
As more than 100 fires burned across the country on Thursday, Queensland officials said two people have died in major blazes near the town of Tara.
Two (...)