More than 70 prisoners, including members of Brazil's most powerful gang, have escaped from a jail in Paraguay after digging a tunnel. […]

The White House has unveiled its legal defence as the Senate prepares for the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Tuesday. […]

A tennis player was left red-faced after an umpire told him off for asking a ball girl to peel a banana for him. […]

Myanmar forces committed war crimes in the counterinsurgency that led more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the country, an independent commission has found. […]

Chinese authorities have confirmed a deadly virus that has infected more than 200 people in four countries can be transmitted via human-to-human contact. […]

Five people - including a child - have died after a pipe exploded and flooded a hotel in Russia with boiling water. […]

Norway's coalition government is close to collapse after the anti-immigrant party propping it up said it will pull out over an Islamic State (IS) bride's repatriation from Syria. […]

A Hawaii man who was facing eviction is believed to have stabbed his landlord and shot dead two police officers before the house he was living in was destroyed by fire. […]

Hail storms, dust clouds and flooding are battering Australia, alongside the ongoing bushfires, wreaking havoc on major cities. […]

Nine people have died in Indonesia after a footbridge collapsed. […]