Mike Pompeo's path to Secretary of State is clear now he has narrowly avoided a historic rebuke by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But that's just the start: he'll inherit a department with plunging morale, writes Charles Edel.

Malaysian police say they are still hunting "two light-skinned suspects who are European or Middle Eastern" after a the assassination of a Hamas engineer suspected to have been working on weaponised drones.

Indonesian police say they have worked with the AFP to unravel a people-smuggling network that was aimed at bringing in fake Rohingya refugees to Australia.

The man suspected of killing four people at a Nashville restaurant allegedly used an AR-15 rifle that had previously been seized amid mental health concerns.

A former serviceman who was injured in an explosion in Afghanistan says he is recovering well after a highly experimental transplant last month that involved a 14-hour operation by Johns Hopkins University doctors.