Former UN chief Ban Ki-moon's unexpected renunciation of his presidential bid in South Korea may benefit Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, who is serving as acting president following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.
British actor Gorden Kaye, best known for playing a French cafe owner in long-running BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, died on Monday aged 75, his agent said.
Thousands of people attended a vigil on Monday in memory of the five victims mown down by a car at Melbourne’s busiest mall last week as police charged the suspected driver with murder.
Washington turned into a virtual fortress on Thursday ahead of Donald Trump's presidential inauguration, while thousands of people took to the streets of New York and Washington to express their displeasure with his coming administration.
A young child is among three people who were killed by a motorist who ploughed into pedestrians in Melbourne's CBD on Friday afternoon.
Donald Trump made his name with opulent hotels and a dramatic reality TV show, but his inauguration on Friday as the 45th U.S. president is shaping up as a more understated affair, with big names in entertainment staying away.
US President Barack Obama slashed the sentence of transgender army private Chelsea Manning, who had been sentenced to 35 years behind bars for handing classified US documents to WikiLeaks.
At the stroke of 12:01pm on Friday, as soon as Donald Trump is sworn in as president and Barack Obama relinquishes the office, dozens of federal workers will swing into action at the White House to replace one commander in chief's creature comforts - favourite snacks, clothes, toiletries, artwork and furniture - with those of his successor.
The company was mired in controversy, but at its heart was a desire to produce clothing that did not harm and exploit the people who made it
To the layman, human nature is a tricky subject to grapple with. But at times it becomes pronounced, in its best and worst forms, under extreme circumstances.
A Bangladesh cafe has reopened, six months after Islamic extremists killed 22 people during a hostage siege.
Not long ago seen as the “twilight years”, 65 to 75 is the new “semi-elderly”, according to ageing experts in Japan.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday (Jan 10) named Ms Chrystia Freeland as foreign minister, replacing Mr Stephane Dion, a critic of US President-elect Donald Trump, in a Cabinet shakeup.
Clare Hollingworth, the veteran British war correspondent who broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland, has died in Hong Kong at the age of 105.
An ambitious update of Michael Crichton's sci-fi thriller, "Westworld" finds an intriguing new point of entry into the story -- examining morality in the context of artificial intelligence -- that both provokes thought and blunts the HBO program's dramatic impact.
Former Portuguese president Mario Soares died Saturday at the age of 92, two weeks after he was admitted to a hospital in capital Lisbon.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to pick businessman William Hagerty as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, an adviser to Trump's transition team told Reuters on Wednesday.
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