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As of 5:00 local time, La Rochelle in the southwest had already recorded a temperature of 29C, the forecaster said, with a high of 43C possible later in the day in the region.Highs of 39 to 40C are forecast...

Kenyan prosecutors say they are preparing to charge several students with the murder of their schoolmates following a suspected school arson attack last month.Sixteen pupils, aged between 15 and 18, died and dozens more were injured when a fire...

Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori built what may be an unassailable lead on Tuesday as vote counting for the runoff election entered its final stages, official figures showed. With 99.86 percent of ballots tallied,...

Schlossberg, 33, was defeated by assemblymember Micah Lasher in a crowded race to succeed congressman Jerry Nadler. Lasher was an aide to Nadler.Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy, is a Vogue correspondent, Harvard Law School graduate and political newcomer...

The man hailed a hero for tackling one of the gunmen who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach has pleaded not guilty to allegedly assaulting his father, a Sydney court has heard.Ahmed al Ahmed, 44, appeared before Bankstown Local...

Trump criticised the resolution on Tuesday night, calling it "poorly timed and meaningless"."So, I have Iran on the 'ropes,' ready to go down for the fall... and the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War...

Eight people who US prosecutors say have ties to Antifa have collectively been sentenced to 450 years in prison for their roles in a riot outside an immigration detention centre in Texas.A former US Marine Corps reservist, who was...

After another day of boasts and denials and conflicting claims from the White House and Iran, Weijia Jiang reports on what we know. Source link

In Europe, record-setting heat caused dozens of deaths, many of them drowning, as several European countries battled the triple-digit temperatures. France saw its highest single temperature since records began. Leigh Kiniry reports. Source link

E-commerce giant Alibaba has launched a high-stakes legal challenge against the US government, suing to get off a Pentagon blacklist that claims it is linked to the Chinese military. The US Department of Defense (DoD) has said that because...