Washington: Donald Trump thinks he knows scorched-earth tactics, but Hillary Clinton and her team are showing him the precision side of the art, with a surgical counter-attack on FBI director James Comey after Friday's sensational letter to Congress ...

Brussels: While Russian warships head to Syria; the US, Germany, Britain, Canada flesh out troop deployment plans for Poland and Romania. Britain said on Wednesday it would send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, ...

The chief executive of Dreamworld's operator Ardent Leisure has warned the company's revenues will take a "significant" hit after this week's fatal accident at the Gold Coast theme park, and asked for patience while authorities investigate. In an ...

Microsoft is trying to rekindle a rivalry with Apple, introducing two new computers that are aimed squarely at the creative set of customers that Apple has long-claimed as its own. A few years ago, Microsoft was an afterthought for most in the tech ...

Several allegations of serious safety issues at the Dreamworld theme park have emerged as investigators probe a ride malfunction that killed four adults, including two mothers who died in front of their young children. A raft carrying six people ...

Australian jihadists attempting to return home as battle erupts around the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul should be locked up if they return, or placed under the "closest monitoring we can arrange" according to former army chief Peter Leahy. "It is ...

Australian jihadists attempting to return home as battle erupts around the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul should be locked up if they return, or placed under the "closest monitoring we can arrange" according to former army chief Peter Leahy. "It is ...

eBay's agreement on Tuesday to spin off PayPal next year will give the unit more flexibility to strike deals in the rapidly evolving payments space as growth at the company's traditional e-commerce business slows. The surprise move is a huge about-face for ...

Hong Kong: With the humble umbrella already a potent symbol of Hong Kong's fight for democracy, there was a certain poetic quality in the moment when tens of thousands of demonstrators opened theirs up to the sky in unison, as thunder rolled and the ...

A US defence official said American warplanes carried out one air strike on the Islamic State near Baghdad and another near Mount Sinjar, in the north of Iraq, in the past 24 hours. It's the first time the US has targeted the militants close to the Iraqi capital.

Analysis. Sangfroid: Barack Obama is projecting calm, but should we be alarmed? Photo: Evan Vucci. Barack Obama is in trouble for a comment months back, when he dismissed Islamic State as a 'JV' or junior varsity team, as in B-grade high school or ...

Malaysia Airlines's ill-fated flight MH17 broke up in the air over eastern Ukraine after being punctured by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside, according to a preliminary report on the accident. A 34-page report ...

Flood waters swept an overcrowded bus carrying a wedding party into a gorge on Thursday with all but six of the 50 on board feared dead in Indian Kashmir, officials said. Rescue teams have been deployed to the flooded gorge south of Kashmir's main city of ...

Carving out some time from a busy schedule of painting world leaders, former US president George W Bush has taken the Ice Bucket challenge, helping to raise money for motor neurone disease. Mr Bush, sitting at an outdoor table, tells the camera he had ...

Geneva: A landslide has derailed a passenger train in the Swiss mountains sending one carriage plunging into a ravine but it appears no one was killed. Photos in Swiss media showed another carriage hanging precariously over the edge of the ravine in the ...

Robin Williams dead, aged 63 · Robin Williams' greatest movie roles · Twitter reacts to Robin Williams' death · Clips from his best performances · Sad reality about those who make us laugh. Robin Williams' only daughter has tweeted back to her father's final ...

Yazidi exodus from the mountain · Forces loyal to PM spark coup fears. Baghdad: Iraq's president named prominent Shiite politician Haider al-Abadi as the country's new prime minister on Monday, dislodging incumbent Nouri al-Maliki after eight years in office ...

A German court ruled on Tuesday that Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone can pay a $US100 million ($A108.2 million) settlement to end his bribery trial. Now likely to stay at the F1 helm, the 83-year-old struck an accord with prosecutors on the huge ...

Ludian, Yunnan Province: After a Sunday morning toiling in the mountains, Xiao Jinrong was sorting the Sichuan peppers he had picked when the earthquake hit. As the walls shook violently around him, the 56-year-old farmer turned to dash out of his mud ...

Cor de Gooiger was driving home from work on Wednesday when he saw the lights of the cortege. “I thought, I think that is the coffins of the people coming home,” he said. “I stopped. It was my gut feeling saying I have to pay respect for the ones who were ...