In one attack, gunmen opened fire on a Taliban vehicle at a local petrol station in the provincial capital of Jalalabad, killing two fighters and a station attendant, witnesses said. A child was also killed,

Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a car carrying a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, in what officials said was an attempted assassination in response to his crackdown on oligarchs.

A tense stand-off between protesters and police at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance has ended in violent scenes and arrests. About 300 to 400 demonstrators returned to the city on Wednesday, despite the city's COVID-19 lockdown and a warning from Victorian authorities.

Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan militant who was behind some of the biggest terror attacks of the 1970s and 1980s, appeared in a Paris court Wednesday in an attempt to have one of his three life sentences reduced.

Last week's drop marked the first substantial decline for more than two months, with falling COVID-19 cases in every world region. In its latest update on the pandemic released on

The Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday completed disbursement of the $200-million bailout fund to cash crisis-hit Sri Lanka amid a deepening foreign reserve crisis in the country. The disbursement was fully executed to the island nation at a time when the country announced a state of emergency over food shortage,

President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday the US plans to donate an additional 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccines to the rest of the world, bringing its total commitment to 1.1 billion, officials said.

Murrumbidgee Turf Club (MTC) has secured Jason Ferrario as its new chief executive. Ferrario has been general manager of the Junee Ex-Services Club for the past two years and has an extensive background in racing.

Tottenham Hotspur came forward to take Marco Asensio away from Real Madrid in the summer, reports Marca on Wednesday. The attacking midfielder has struggled to get into Carlo Ancelotti’s plans as he’s yet to start for Los Blancos this season and has been restricted to less than 70 minutes of …

The Kosciuszko credentials of Front Page will go under the microscope at Moonee Valley tonight. The Geoff Duryea-trained sprinter is set to contest the