A Somali-born Australian who set fire to a gas-laden truck in the centre of Melbourne and fatally stabbed one person before he was shot by police was inspired by Islamic State but did not have direct links…
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is now compatible with Nintendo Labo – so you can use the cardboard creation system’s handlebar model to play. A free update to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has added Labo as…
France is considering imposing a state of emergency to stop a repeat of the violence in Paris that left swathes of the city centre looking like a war zone and injured 133 people. President Emmanuel…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel came armed with a “cheat sheet”, including a photograph, to identify Australia’s new prime minister before meeting him at the G20 summit – an incident seen in Australia as an embarrassing…
Donald Trump threatened to permanently close the US-Mexico border on Monday after US authorities used tear gas to stop migrants crossing into the country illegally. Forty two people were arrested after a group of migrants…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has been hospitalised after she fractured three ribs in a fall in her Washington office. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening but went to George Washington University Hospital after experiencing discomfort overnight, court…
An Indonesian woman whose fiance died on a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea was photographed in her wedding dress and professed her love for him on the day they were to have been…
The December solstice happens at the same instant for everyone, everywhere on Earth – and this year the winter solstice occurs today, Friday December 21st 22:23 GMT in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter solstice happens every year…
For Sergey Lagodinsky, the timing could not have been more symbolic. As Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom against the country’s Jews over the weekend, he secured nomination as a Green…
Things sure are changing quickly in Canada’s housing markets. After years of growth, the country will see falling house prices and sales this year, led by Toronto and Vancouver, and only a modest rebound next…