PM confirms Australia was asked to join new body focused on Gaza reconstruction and Middle East peace efforts at weekend ...

The newly inaugurated mayor of New York City put an extraordinary game on in a classic location, a formula he aims to mimic later this year ...

American third seed beats Uzbek Kamilla Rakhimova 6-2, 6-3, saying afterwards, ‘I just want to win the tournament’ ...

Helen Pidd meets the US citizens attempting to claim asylum in the Netherlands ...

After a year out with an Achilles tendon injury, Australian qualifier Storm Hunter has made a triumphant return to the Australian Open ...

Government’s truce with Syrian Democratic Forces follows advance on Kurdish-held areas amid struggle to control entire country ...

Despite feeling compelled to cut ties with Russia's persecution of LGBTQ+ people, Kasatkina speaks with fondness about some aspects of her homeland, where she still has family ...

Talk about climate whiplash ...

European leaders meet for crisis talks and are expected to discuss reviving plan to levy tariffs on €93bn of US goods – key US politics stories from Sunday 18 January at a glance ...

Kyiv’s forces say 30 Russian strikes recorded across 15 locations while hundreds of thousands left without electricity in occupied Zaporizhzhia. What we know on day 1,426 ...

Moderate socialist Antonio Jose Seguro came out on top in the first round, followed by Andre Ventura of the far-right Chega party ...

Despite much soul-searching over UK’s inability to build infrastructure, two sections of HS2 under Chilterns are being hailed for their engineering ...