A number of senior government figures have tested positive for the coronavirus, in what is the hardest-hit country in the region.

Iraqi militias backed by Iran have agreed to temporarily halt attacks targeting the American presence in Iraq, on the condition that US-led coalition troops withdraw from the country.

For historians and far-right extremism experts, QAnon is both a very new and a very old phenomenon.

Daily COVID-19 infections in mainland China have fallen drastically from peaks early this year, but the country remains on high alert.

A telescope in Hawaii last month discovered the mystery object heading our way while doing a search intended to protect our planet from doomsday rocks.

Mutinous Indonesian marines and seamen, under the protection of the Australian government, boarded the Esperance Bay for home.

What was this famous US court decision – and what would happen if it were overturned?

Concerns about China’s growing influence in the Asia-Pacific are expediting the creation of international allegiances, unified by their wariness of the authoritarian state.

Cardinal George Pell was cleared earlier this year of sexual abuse charges in Australia after spending 13 months in prison.

EU foreign ministers have backed a Franco-German plan to impose sanctions on Russians suspected of poisoning Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.