The seizure of the tanker carrying Venezuelan crude oil comes amid a large US military build-up in the region, which the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro believes is to force him out.
The photo is one of a series of images exposing the unparalleled access to British high society and power that the former prince granted convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On his lunch break from his sales job, Remy Osman tracks rickety old tankers, often flying false flags, as they carry sanctioned Russian oil through one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
These hedonistic photographs show men behaving badly with little compunction, knowing they could get away with it. The handling of Saturday's release makes you wonder if times have really changed.
The conviction adds to a series of legal troubles for Pakistan's former prime minister, who has been in prison since August 2023 serving a 14-year sentence in a separate case.
The US Justice Department has released records relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019. Follow along for our live coverage.
The new lettering on Washington DC's "living memorial” to JFK marks the latest effort by the administration and its allies to remake the capital in Trump's image.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the start of an effort to "eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure and weapons sites” in Syria after the deaths of three US citizens.
Manchester's top police officer says there are reports some people celebrated the Bondi killings. Meanwhile, a video with false claims highlights the challenge of separating threats from misinformation.
The new images include close-ups of sentences from the book Lolita, scribbled across different parts of a woman's body. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and political activist Noam Chomsky are also pictured in other images.
The man had let off smoke bombs at Taipei's main train station, and then ran to a nearby shopping district while attacking people on the way, authorities said.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as the saying goes. Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson has caused a stir with extreme close-up images of the Trump team, injection marks and all.
Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presented to the jury.
One of Trump's great assets last year was that he appeared more in touch with people's real problems and worries. Now, he risks being the one seen as divorced from reality.
Bondi Beach terrorists Sajid and Naveed Akram stayed at a hotel in the southern city of Davao for the entire time they were in the Philippines, staff say.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, as the saying goes. Vanity Fair photographer Christopher Anderson has caused a stir with extreme close-up images of the Trump team, injection marks and all.
Benjamin Netanyahu had no right to claim Australia "poured fuel on the antisemitic fire” that caused the Bondi massacre, writes Israel's former prime minister.
Paramount and Netflix are (almost) knocking each other out to buy Warner Bros Discovery – but there are bigger things than cable TV and movie studios at stake.
Hate preachers and potential terrorists could be targeted and deported by officials pursuing their tax and immigration records under a new approach to tackling extremism.
Nick Reiner, 32, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty.
"You struck people head-on, knocked others onto the bonnet, drove over limbs, crushed prams and forced those nearby to scatter in terror,” a Liverpool judge told Paul Doyle.
Susie Wiles, the president's trusted and respected chief of staff, revealed her true feelings in a series of candid chats with Vanity Fair magazine, describing her boss as having "an alcoholic's personality”.
The country's southern regions have long been a breeding group for Islamic militancy, attracting foreign fighters to a network of shadowy training camps.
The president has followed through on his threat to sue Britain's public broadcaster in a row over edited speech footage that has already cost the jobs of two senior executives.
American gun lobbyists quickly hijacked the Sydney massacre for their own political purposes, as did anti-immigration activists – in a harbinger of what's to come.
The president has followed through on his threat to sue Britain's public broadcaster in a row over edited speech footage that has already cost the jobs of two senior executives.
The former Duke of York – a former naval helicopter pilot who flew in the Falklands conflict – had his honorary military rank removed over his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The NATO-like security proposal would only be on the table for a limited time. Germany's leader said, "For the first time, a ceasefire now seems possible”.
As hundreds braved bitterly cold conditions in the US capital to light the National Menorah, the horrific news and images from Sydney were top of mind.
Barely two months after the deadly Manchester synagogue attack, a senior Jewish figure in the UK says the Bondi massacre must be a line in the sand against religious hatred.
It is little wonder that Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine. From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.
US President Donald Trump says "there will be very serious retaliation” after two US service members and one American civilian were killed by IS in Syria.
The prisoner release was by far the biggest since Trump's administration opened talks this year with veteran authoritarian leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko.
As Bashar al-Assad fled for Moscow, the doors of his notorious prison flew open. And one man, after six long years behind bars, made his way home, broken but alive.
Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons and blocking manoeuvres against 20 Philippine fishing boats off a disputed South China Sea shoal, the Philippine coast guard said.
It is a daunting task: reimagining one of Australia's most loved and important books – not to mention the Peter Weir film adaptation – on the opposite side of the world.
Personnel at MA Services Group have repeatedly attempted to cover up its role in an ongoing operation involving a private security force sent to Nauru to guard exiled Australian immigration detainees.
In Indiana, the state Senate roundly rejected a push to redraw the electoral map to benefit Donald Trump. In the end, despite the president's threats, the vote wasn't even close.
Indiana's Republican-led Senate decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map that would have favoured their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump.
The US has added six more ships to its list of sanctioned vessels believed to be ferrying Venezuelan oil, amid expectations it will intercept and seize more tankers.
Mark Rutte urged allies to step up defence efforts to prevent a war that could be "on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured”.
Facing serious charges, Andrew Tate was barred from leaving Romania. Then weeks after Donald Trump took office, an extraordinary order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government.
A Saudi-registered blue Rolls-Royce worth nearly $501,000 was one of the cars removed in a council crackdown outside a London hotel that charges from $2800 a night.
The captain's pick for the role of defence secretary is facing allegations he's presided over a military mission that may have been marked by war crimes. That's a step too far for some of the president's fans.
Overnight, Maria Corina Machado has re-established herself as a major player in an escalating game of brinkmanship between the US president and Venezuela's leader.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have issued a statement lauding the world-leading legislation. But they also have some ideas for how it could be improved.
President Donald Trump says the US has taken over a "very large” oil tanker in the latest move to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The US president's warning has gained emphatic support from European political leaders who aim to take or hold power by tapping into discontent on migration and social change.
Applying for a visa waiver is also set to get more complicated under the new plan, with authorities seeking to collect far more detailed information including biometrics, IP addresses and metadata and family histories.
A court has been shown bodycam footage of the moment police approached Luigi Mangione as he ate a meal after allegedly shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
UK security services protected the spy – despite his links to more than a dozen killings, abductions and torture during the Troubles – and suppressed the truth about for him decades, a new report reveals.
Describing Europe's immigration policy as a "disaster”, the US president also suggested Russia would win its war in Ukraine as he blasted European leaders for talking too much without producing results.
The Pentagon's AUKUS review might be an American document, but the Australian government has a duty to its own taxpayers to insist upon greater transparency.
The Ukraine president is holding firm in a deepening dispute over whether to cede land to Russia to end the war, issuing a forceful statement of his nation's sovereignty.
The company, which has close ties to the Trump administration, has launched an offer that challenges Netflix's plan to create an unassailable media empire.
Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong met their American counterparts Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington for annual talks amid what Rubio called "real momentum” in the alliance.
A poll suggests a clear majority of Americans – especially MAGA Republicans – want the US to defend Ukraine and Taiwan, even while Donald Trump is equivocal.
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the US, aided by allies of Donald Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of COVID-19. Her husband still can't find her.
The death toll in Sudan is now more than Gaza and Ukraine combined. With the new world order, civilisation is a lot more fragile than we like to think.
Six weeks ago, a smiling US president was celebrating the ceasefire he had brokered. Now Thailand has once more deployed fighter jets against its neighbour.
Experts say the statement of support for Japan is cautious but welcome after a month-long campaign of retaliation from Beijing for a remark by Japan's PM.
Only weeks after satellite images showed blood-stained earth, deaths are mounting in a nearby region and a kindergarten has also been reportedly struck.
Less than half of the monarchy's senior working royals attended the biggest event on Catherine's calendar, though some absences are more noteworthy than others.
For all the concerns that the US president would enforce "Christian nationalism” on America and the world, we've seen another set of values define his government.
At a major defence conference, civilian and military officials also spoke of the ongoing difficulty in building more nuclear-powered submarines, which Australia will depend on under the AUKUS agreement.
Police in the UK have made four arrests after "Tax the Rich” activists smeared crumble and custard over the case containing the State Crown at the Tower of London.
A spokesperson for the Duchess of Sussex says she "reached out” to Thomas Markle after his surgery. Meghan's half-sister disputes that on social media.
The US administration's new strategy on global security renews calls for Indo-Pacific allies to spend more on defence and share the burden of containing China, but places less importance on Australia's role than Japan's and South Korea's.
The US president said his country recommends "far more” shots to children than necessary, hours after an influential vaccine advisory panel voted to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns receive a vaccine for hepatitis B.
The ceremony to sort out who's playing who at next year's global soccer-fest veered from pure chaos to maximum cringe – and of course, the Donald also did his dance.
Admiral Frank Bradley told lawmakers an alleged drug boat struck four times in September was meeting a vessel bound for Suriname, not heading directly to the United States.
The suspected drug boat was hit four times, not two. Democrats say the survivors posed no threat, while Republicans argued otherwise – though they agreed Pete Hegseth did not issue a "kill everybody” order.
Israel was cleared to enter the 2026 song contest, prompting Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia to follow through on their threats to withdraw over the Gaza war.
Retired teacher Nina Synyakivych sits at a desk, cutting white material into long strips. She knows what she does is essential. Soldiers tell her it's saving their lives.
A Californian doctor has been slammed by a judge for exploiting Hollywood actor Mathew Perry's addiction and supplying him with ketamine in the lead up to his death.
Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley is now an example of the potential legal peril the US military faces as it carries out the orders of Donald Trump and his defence secretary.
Russian forces have nearly encircled a town that was once home to 46,000 people, but which is now an uninhabitable shell after a brutal year-long assault.