A senate committee report urges Australia's government to remove children from its migrant detention centre on Nauru island in the Pacific.

A second foreign suspect has been arrested in connection with the deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine in August, the Thai PM says.

Victorious Kenyan athletes return home to a hero's welcome after they topped the medal table at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing for the first time.

A second member of Ukraine's national guard has died from injuries after Monday's violent anti-autonomy protests outside the parliament in Kiev, officials say.

In a temporary relaxation of the rules, Pope Francis allows all priests to forgive abortion.

Unless something is done to stem the flow of waste to the oceans, virtually every seabird will be ingesting plastic debris by 2050, say scientists.

Friends of the cameraman killed last week while broadcasting in Virginia have gathered to remember him at his former school.

A Christian official who refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples in Kentucky is ordered to do so by the US Supreme Court.