Men's tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Serbia team for the ATP Cup in Sydney, casting further doubt on whether he will defend his Australian Open title next month.

A vocal pro-democracy website in Hong Kong has been shut down after police raided its office, froze its assets and arrested senior staff.

An unusually warm spell in what is usually the coldest state in the United States has seen temperature records broken.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu's daughter has joined those paying tribute to the late anti-apartheid hero, recalling the day he saved a young man from being burned alive as her "proudest moment".Nontombi Naomi Tutu said she...

Two Save the Children staff members were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in Myanmar on Christmas Eve during an attack blamed on government forces.

More than 100 British tourists have been denied entry to Austria after COVID rules were not updated before they left for their holiday, it has been reported.

India's government has blocked a charity founded by Mother Teresa from receiving foreign funds.The Missionaries of Charity, which runs schools, clinics, hospices and homes for abandoned children in India, had applied to renew its...

Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the country's most prominent human rights group to be liquidated.The court ruled that the group Memorial must be closed for breaking the law on foreign agents.The group says the...