The unprecedented number of empty seats at the political meeting – a symbol of expulsions – indicates the scale of the purges under Xi Jinping ...

NSW police say charges include child rape and relate to 23 alleged victims aged between one and five at an inner Sydney childcare centre ...

Unconvincing performances and an ill-fitting big stage make a retooled version of the classic courtroom drama feel like a missed opportunity ...

Washington bureau chief David Smith reports from Texas, where the Democrats are hopeful of a stunning victory that could also signal a much wider defeat for Trump in the midterms ...

As many as eight million people have been affected by the cascading issues of food shortages, electricity loss and health clinic closures ...

Jillian Segal says perception of link between coverage of conflicts and hostility towards Jewish Australians ‘is itself a matter of public importance’ ...

EU council president calls deadly strike ‘cruel and devastating’; fragile ceasefire holds in Oleshky. What we know on day 1,710 ...

Stephen McLeish said the court had found Patterson’s actions 'carefully planned and deliberate', saying she had engaged in an 'elaborate series of deceptions' ...

Candidate for Ohio governor confirms campaign no longer airing ad that smeared rival and was defended by Trump ...

A row over a landmine blast and a threat to resume loudspeaker broadcasts has highlighted Kim Jong-un’s military ambitions ...

George Russell has insisted he will not let his difficult Formula One season define his career and still has plenty of time to win the world championship ...

Report calls for an effort to tackle harms in similar way to obesity and smoking, and stresses need to ‘offer boys something better’ ...