World of photos, May 19, 2024

Confronting vision has emerged of disgraced rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs allegedly assaulting his former partner inside a hotel.

Penny Wong said the government was working with authorities in France and New Caledonia, to find a way for Australians to safely leave the island.

A Scottish National Party MP wants the streaming giant to substantiate its claims that a stalker who inspired the fictional character was convicted.

The $480m US-built pier has been welcomed by aid groups, but there is a fear it may be diverting attention from the surging humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The video from 2016, and aired now in the US by CNN, is the latest in a months-long series of public allegations and revelations of physical and sexual violence from the hip-hop mogul.

Dozens of Australian parents and children have been caught in this outdated, cruel system. Now the Japanese government has finally relented.

Nancy Pelosi was in Washington when David DePape went to her San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband Paul with a hammer.

The museum had not yet opened, and I was following instructions to catwalk, hip bump and point in the grand room where Louis XIV once held plays and balls.

Itzik Gelernter, Shani Louk and Amit Buskila were killed by Hamas while fleeing the Nova music festival, an outdoor dance party near the Gaza border.

A man accused of shooting the Slovakian prime minister has been charged with attempted murder.

Australian parents of children taken by their ex-partners in Japan say watershed reforms enabling joint custody dont address the root cause of the issue.

This week, the tropical Pacific holiday destination with a French touch went from festive to confronting.

Indonesian authorities have been hunting accused drug trafficker Gregor Johann Haas since December last year. They arrested him on Wednesday with help from Philippine police.

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As Russia advances and Ukraines manpower decreases, the US and its allies are getting ready to do more to stop the war.

A teenager who vanished 26 years ago in Algeria has been rescued from his neighbour's cellar.

Bodycam video has been released showing a police officer helping a lost girl to find her family on a Florida beach.

An airline worker had a nasty fall after portable steps were removed from an aircraft in Indonesia.

Police in Florida have charged a man after he left his young daughter alone in his baking SUV.

Some iPhone users have reported issues with using Apple's iMessage service.

Greg Abbotts demand for a review of the case followed pressure from former Fox News star Tucker Carlson, who urged the Texas governor to intervene.

Azerbaijan had invited separatists from the French territories last year, resulting in a group whose stated aim is to support French liberation and anti-colonialist movements.

French Government sending 1000 additional security personnel to New Caledonia as a state of emergency is imposed.

Man arrested at the scene of an assassination plot on Slovakia's Prime Minister charged with murder.