China expresses serious concern to Washington and Seoul, saying moving the US military's controversial THAAD anti-missile defence system into South Korea will only worsen tensions in the region.

Mexico reacts with anger to a Trump administration plan to deport non-Mexican illegal immigrants over their border if they entered the US from the southern neighbouring nation.

Iraqi forces capture Mosul airport hours after launching a major offensive against Islamic State militants, who control the western half of the city, state television reports.

German authorities arrest a suspected Islamist in connection with an attack on a bus carrying players of one of the country's top football teams, a spokeswoman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office says.

A spirited Hillary Clinton takes on the Trump administration in one of her first public speeches since she lost the US presidential election, criticising everything from health care to the shortage of women appointees in top positions.

There are storylines galore for the final round of the Masters with plenty of big names in contention for the green jacket, headed by co-leaders Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia.

At least 29 people die as a bus plunges into a ravine in the northern Philippines, in one of the country's deadliest accidents in years, officials say.

Dubai is under pressure to reveal what happened to one of its princesses, who was allegedly kidnapped by armed men after trying to flee to India on a luxury yacht.

At least 10 people are killed and 50 injured in an explosion on a train carriage in St Petersburg's underground metro, Russian authorities say.

Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for another six years as Russian President, buoyed by popular support but weighed down too by a costly confrontation with the West, a fragile economy and uncertainty about what happens when his term ends.

While international eyes focus on what the UN has called the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, another deadly conflict is heating up in the mountains of the country's north.

Russians take to the streets in more than 90 towns and cities across the country to register their opposition to Vladimir Putin's presidential inauguration that will take place next week.

The New York Post's news app is hacked on April Fools' Day, sending out a series of unusual push alerts including Nirvana lyrics and a message reading "Heil President Donald Trump".

Israel could respond to any Iranian attack on it from Syria by toppling president Bashar al-Assad's government, an Israeli security cabinet minister says, hinting that Mr Assad himself may be targeted for assassination.

Members of a crime gang dedicated to the theft of luxury cheese and fine wine worth tens of thousands of dollars are arrested in Italy.

A Benedictine monk working to preserve Islamic manuscripts may at first sound like a contradiction, but for Father Columba Stewart it's a vital mission.

Two days after Indian police arrested 14 people over the alleged gang-rape and murder of a teenager in the state of Jharkhand, a 17-year-old is reportedly battling for her life after being raped and set ablaze in the same state.

Syrian Government forces use warplanes, helicopters and artillery to pound districts of the capital held by the Islamic State group, in a bid to enforce an evacuation deal reached with the militants earlier in the week.

New radar scans prove there are no hidden rooms in King Tutankhamun's burial chamber, ending speculation the tomb of ancient Egypt's young pharaoh king may also be the last resting place of Queen Nefertiti.

Red-hot lava buries homes in Hawaii as one of the world's most active volcanoes continues to erupt and hundreds of people take shelter in evacuation centres.