PM Anthony Albanese calls the birth defects scandal one of Australia's "darkest" medical chapters.
Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton honour another former US first lady.
Relatives of the victims are willing to accept a fraction of the nearly $1.5bn they won in legal judgements.
An explosive eruption sends volcanic rock hurtling into the sea around Niijima Island, south of Tokyo.
The disgraced lawyer, already serving two life terms for murder, gets a 27-year sentence for financial fraud.
The ex-President emerged from home hospice care to attend a memorial service for his wife of 77 years.
Investigators are looking for clues on whether the attack on three Palestinian students was a hate crime.
Indian rescuers faced repeated and unexpected setbacks during the 17 days they dug through a mountain in the country's north to reach 41 construction workers trapped after a tunnel collapsed there earlier this month
Forty-one construction workers have been rescued from a collapsed tunnel in northern India where they had spent the last 17 days
The first transatlantic flight by a commercial jet powered solely by so-called sustainable aviation fuel has flown from London to New York
Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life as a Hamas hostage
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed that his government will work “as fast as possible” to solve a budget crisis
Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders has tapped a former minister from the center-left Labor Party to investigate possible coalitions
Malaysia's government says more than 120 suspected victims of job scams have been rescued after being stranded by fighting in northern Myanmar between the military and armed ethnic groups
An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas has said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and captives became hungry
Polish media are reporting that four miners died after a pipeline filled with water burst in a coal mine deep below ground in southern Poland
The U.N. says gangs are invading Haiti’s rural central region and suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country’s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes
The Israeli military says the latest group of 12 hostages freed by Hamas has exited Gaza into Egypt
A Pakistani court has ordered a public trial in prison of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets
Greek officials say they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens