French construction worker Damien Guerot’s work visa was due to expire in July until PM Anthony Albanese intervened with an invitation to settle in Australia.
The bill boosts background checks for private sales of guns and make it a crime to recklessly sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from having guns.
The former US president hosted Poland’s Andrzej Duda for dinner at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
The abandoned office building, which was France’s biggest squat, had been home to up to 450 migrants, most of them documented but awaiting social housing.
Analysts Gracenote Sports forecasts the US and China to win 123 and 89 medals overall, respectively, and to finish 1-2 as they did at the Tokyo Olympics.
Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, dumping more than 142mm of rain on the desert city state of Dubai in the span of hours.
North Korea state media reports show that video surveillance is becoming more common at schools, workplaces and airports, researchers wrote in a new report.
Some in fashion are worried about the use of AI-generated models in photo shoots and campaigns, claiming that digital models may push human ones out of jobs and leave the industry with less diversity.
US officials will offer support, primarily in Asia and Africa, to help identify and respond to diseases like Covid-19, to prevent future outbreaks.
Lawrence Wong, who will assume power on May 15, said Singapore’s incumbent leader Lee Hsien Loong would serve as a senior minister in his cabinet.
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change.
Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted a year ago, sparking one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
A lightning strike killed a group of farmers harvesting wheat in one province. Heavy rains also caused dozens of houses to collapse in the northwest and east of the country.
Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled an elaborate plan to break a US aid package into separate votes to squeeze through the House’s political divides on foreign policy. The move could end a months-long Republican blockade on help for Ukraine.
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has come under a series of drone attacks since April 7.
Mini-sabbaticals, adult gap years, or just gap months – extended breaks come in various guises and have a range of health benefits; experts give tips on how to do it and keep costs down.
Donald Trump is being investigated over his role in hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Jury selection expected to resume on Tuesday.
Saturday’s drone and missile launches, including some that overflew Iraqi airspace, have underscored the delicate relationship between Washington and Baghdad, not least because of Iranian proxy groups that operate in Iraq.
Security concerns are notably high for the ‘world first’ opening ceremony, which involves boats carrying athletes along the Seine in 100 barges.
Social media footage show the man approaching a cleric at the altar identified as the bishop and appearing to stab him repeatedly in the head and upper body.
An official inquiry found in 2023 that the 2017 attack might have been stopped if Britain’s MI5 security service had acted on vital intelligence.
Government announced it would terminate contract with Macau Jockey Club earlier this year, citing operational challenges.
Amir Tamba, who died in Lahore on Saturday, was a suspect in prison death of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of spying in Pakistan and handed death sentence in 1991.
Prosecutors last year charged Denise Lodge, her husband Cedric and 5 others in an alleged scheme in which people bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard and a mortuary in Arkansas.
Inspector Amy Scott was in the shopping centre while the attack unfolded and confronted the man after being directed towards him by onlookers.
The US and Israel had been bracing for an attack for days after Iran vowed to retaliate for a suspected Israeli strike this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people
Some young Americans are discouraged from investing their time in China by what they see as diminishing economic opportunities and strained relations between Washington and Beijing.
The US president headed back to the White House to meet his national security team and monitor the situation in the Middle East.
Warmer weather has allowed Russia to ramp up its assaults in the region, as tanks can now more easily move across previously muddy terrain.
The US celebrity chef drew fire after his brand sent cease-and-desist letters to small Asian-American-run businesses selling spicy condiments with similar names.
