Indonesia has given Australia a draft proposal of how it wants the transfer of the remaining Bali Nine prisoners to work in the most tangible sign a deal will be done.
I fought for Van Nguyen 19 years ago. Despite a worldwide trend away from the death penalty for drugs, Singapore continues to execute people – including four in the past month.
Israel has unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people overnight.
As topics go, few are more incendiary: the war in Gaza, the incoming US president and the counter-revolution that may cost the planet. Robert Manne steps up again to take the heat from the culture warriors.
The president-elect's threat came hours after the Israeli government confirmed the death of Omer Neutra, a dual US-Israeli citizen, whose body is still believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza.
Donald Trump's bizarre appointments are alarming, but perhaps more worrying is who he wants to fire. Trump's war on the so-called "deep state” is an assault on the apparatus that built America to greatness.
About 15,000 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan. The Russian death toll in Ukraine is at least eight times that already - and alcohol-related deaths are spiralling.
Three more staff members from Nana Backpacker Hostel in Laos have been arrested over a suspected methanol poisoning that killed two Melbourne teenagers.
The Syrian army says dozens of its soldiers were killed in a major attack led by Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels who swept into the city of Aleppo.
World Central Kitchen charity workers were among five people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in the Gaza Strip. The family of a victim has rejected allegations he took part in last year's attack on Israel.
Donald Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, who served time in jail for tax evasion, at the end of his first presidency. The appointment underscores the president-elect will fill his next administration with loyalists.
Donald Trump's pick to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has reached a pinnacle of power after a life of fame and addictions and a career intertwined with conspiracy theories.
The attack injected new violence into a region experiencing dual wars in Gaza and Lebanon involving Israel, and other conflicts, including the Syrian civil war that began in 2011.
The Canadian prime minister paid a visit to the president-elect, who on Monday threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico.
In one of the biggest landmark social changes in the country in decades, terminally ill patients will be allowed to end their own lives under strict conditions.
Penny Wong has made her strongest comments yet on the decision by the judges to continue working in Hong Kong amid concerns about a crackdown on political dissent.
An investigation is under way into allegations of "inappropriate” behaviour by television presenter Gregg Wallace towards women on the set of the BBC show.
As Moscow pounded Ukraine overnight leaving more than 1 million people without power, the Russian president claimed he was ready for dialogue with the US.
Displaced civilians in Lebanon and northern Israel have returned to what's left of their homes, after a historic ceasefire came into effect between Israel and Hezbollah.
When Shah Alam, who works on a fruit stand in front of Sotheby's in Manhattan, learnt a cheap piece of fruit he sold had become part of an absurdist artwork that went for millions in the auction house, he began to cry.
British MPs are to debate a bill which would legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. A decade after a similar bill was overwhelmingly rejected, the result appears to be on a knife's edge.
A new Netflix documentary series reexamines the gruesome December 1996 killing of JonBenet Ramsey and suggests modern technology might help solve the homicide that has riveted and perplexed the country for decades.
They are short, tall, flabby, lean, clean-shaven, bearded, bald and pony-tailed. All but 14 were employed, in jobs that reflect the spectrum of rural France.
Despite the Lebanon ceasefire, the idea of permanent peace seems optimistic, and there is still no end to the war in Gaza, where the situation may become more deadly.
The president-elect said on social media he intends to slap heavy tariffs on America's neighbours and top trading partners as soon as he returns to the White House in January.
An original 200-year-old copy of A Voyage to Terra Australis – complete with handwritten annotations and corrections – is expected to attract bids of more than six figures.
Those detained include management and staff at Nana Backpackers Hostel, where two Australian teenagers stayed before dying from suspected methanol poisoning.
A grieving backpacker has taken it upon himself to try to uncover the truth about the suspected mass methanol poisoning in Vang Vieng that killed at least six people.
Keir Starmer, who won July's general election in a landslide, has suffered the biggest fall in approval ratings of any prime minister in the modern era.
Germany is investigating several fires caused by incendiary devices hidden inside parcels at a warehouse in Leipzig for delivery by DHL earlier this year.
The president-elect is yet to sign an agreement with the Biden administration that imposes strict limits on fundraising for his transition to the White House.
The president and vice president of the Philippines are at each other's throats. But the row is a potential proxy for a much more significant conflict.
In putting forward three men accused of sexual misconduct for high office, Donald Trump is conveying that men like himself are the perpetual victims of lies.
The family of alleged New York state serial killer Rex Heuermann withstood gawking tourists and destructive police searches, but are now selling up and moving.
Zach Hope reports from Vang Vieng, where cheap alcohol is plentiful but answers about what killed six people, including two Australians, are harder to find.
The response to October 7 has unleashed a tsunami of misinformation and disinformation about Islam and Muslims. There is clearly a problem in Australia that needs to be addressed.
While support for Putin's threats resounded in pro-war venues, some Russians reacted with worry, gallows humour and apathy to the suggestions of striking the West.
Millions of former tweeters have taken their spotless minds and ridden, on a butterfly's wings, to an alternative reality: Bluesky, the microblogging site for progressive idealists.
A woman who claimed mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor "brutally raped and battered" her in a Dublin hotel penthouse was awarded nearly €250,000 ($400,000) by a civil court jury in Ireland.
The government of Laos publicly acknowledged the tragedy, which claimed the lives of two Australians, saying it was "profoundly saddened over the loss of lives”.
Ukraine's parliament has cancelled a session over security fears, as Putin says Western air defence systems would be powerless to stop the new missile.
In issuing of arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and his former defence minister puts at stake not just their fate but the reputation of the court itself.
There were reasonable grounds to believe the Israeli PM and his former defence minister were criminally responsible for starvation in Gaza and the persecution of Palestinians, the ICC judges said.