Sicily's meteorological service logged the temperature on Wednesday. The record needs to be verified by the United Nations.

Albania, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey have received support from their NATO Allies in dealing with devastating wildfires faced since July. The assistance provided included the delivery of ground and air assets most needed to help contain the spread …

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has been given powers to tighten rules around the singles bubble and people exercising as part of a COVID-19 crackdown. Meanwhile, the NSW government has begun talks to ease restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated.

Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen says people "deserve to know why" Australian citizen Cheng Lei is still being held in China a year after she was arrested. A petition organised by Ms Nielsen for the single mother of two to be released by China is being launched tomorrow – …

I like to read trip reports, so here is my very long one. We spent two weeks driving from Astoria to Crescent city, then to Crater Lake, Bend, and through the Columbia River Gorge back to Portland. Two fourty something parents and our son that turned 16 on the trip.

Seungri, the disgraced former member of K-pop boy band BIGBANG, has been sentenced to a three-year prison term by a military court on multiple charges including prostitution mediation and overseas gambling.

A Philippine court has dropped a libel case against Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, one of several lawsuits filed against the journalist who says she's being targeted.

The Ministry of Health and the Israel Police were successful on Wednesday in capturing 23 people who were on their way to New York with fake Coronavirus (COVID-19) tests.

An enormous wildfire raging across northern California for nearly a month has burned down another 550 homes, fire officials say, becoming one of the most destructive in state history.The Dixie Fire, which broke out on July 14 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains some 260 kilometres northeast of Sacramento,

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Thursday called for peaceful resolution of the division which has developed within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army-In-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) led by First Vice President Riek Machar.