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Australian government gives green light to Sydney's second airport
The new airport is the centrepiece of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's A$30 billion national public works drive
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Reindeer are shrinking: Global warming threatens Christmas icon
Over the past 16 years, the weight of adult reindeer in Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic has dropped by 12 per cent
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Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq - army
PKK militants have fought a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish south-east
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Six months on, Brexit rift among Britons remains wide
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to begin formal exit talks by the end of March
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Mexican narcos beat heat in air conditioned tombs
Criminals, and millions of Mexicans, worship a skeletal death saint known as Santa Muerte
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Why is Jakarta's governor on trial for blasphemy?
In November more than 100,000 Muslims swarmed Jakarta in one of the largest mass demonstrations seen in the capital
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Russia declines Japanese dog diplomacy ahead of summit
Abe and Putin will meet in Japan on December 15-16
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India threatens to ‘break Pakistan into 10 pieces’
Rajnath Singh once again accuses Pakistan of ‘cross-border terrorism’
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Trump questions 'one China policy' without Beijing concessions
China not cooperating with America on its handling of its currency, says US president-elect
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Trump calls 'ridiculous' reports Russia helped him in US election
The President-elect blamed Democrats for putting out the media reports and said he did believe they came from the CIA
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British FM's 'proxy war' comment misconstrued: Saudi foreign minister
Boris Johnson had accused Saudi Arabia and its rival Iran of engaging in "puppeteering" and "playing proxy wars"
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Paolo Gentiloni named new Italy prime minister
Gentiloni will form a new government that will guide Italy to elections due by February 2018
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Here’s how much a coffee date with Ivanka Trump costs
The president-elect's daughter has auctioned a meet and greet
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Boris Johnson in Saudi Arabia says candour important, stresses friendship
Friendship between UK and Saudi Arabia is something that is developing and expanding, says British foreign secretary
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Ronaldo declared 20 million euros in Swiss banks
The Portuguese international earned 203.7 million euros outside of Spain and 23.5 million inside the country
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Meet Major Uqbah Malik, first Pakistani instructor at Britain’s Royal Military Academy
He graduated from RMAS in 2007
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Iran signs $16.6 billion deal for 80 Boeing planes
It is the the biggest US-Iran deal since the 1979
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A 500-year-old mystery has finally been solved
Find out here
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Nigeria president says "many deaths" in church collapse
A rescue operation is underway
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At least 20 dead in blast at Cairo church
The blast at the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbasiya neighbourhood also wounded 10 people
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The oldest known seabird lays an egg at 66
The birds spend almost 90 percent of their lives flying, traveling thousands of miles every year looking for food
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Fall of Aleppo will be a pivotal moment in Syria war
Regime troops and allied militia now control at least 85 percent of the one-time rebel stronghold
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Suicide car bomb at Somalia port kills at least four: police
The al Shabaab militant group has been carrying out a series of deadly attacks in Somalia
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The secret, hypocritical gay world of Islamic State
ISIS murdered a 15-year-old accused of being gay but spared the life of his ‘rapist,’ a senior jihadi commander
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Canada's 'Marathon Man' finally achieves Afghan ambition
Parnell sees the sport as a form of meditation
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Ukrainian schoolchildren learn to the echoes of shelling
The drills in the town of Marinka are held every month since the conflict broke out with pro-Russian insurgents
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The ibex code: deciphering Iran's ancient rock art
It is hard to imagine that the desolate, rock-strewn landscape outside the town of Khomein conceals any treasures
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Big banks in US could see fat payday under Trump
Donald Trump victory has bolstered the chances for pro-growth measures, tax cuts and loosening of regulations
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Fed to raise rates as Trump economy looms
Members of the Federal Open Market Committee have cautioned low rates could harm the central bank's credibility
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North Korea military drill targets South's presidential office
The military exercise was aimed at 'destroying specified targets of the enemy,' including the South's Blue House
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ExxonMobil CEO is Trump's top pick for secretary of state: reports
Rex Tillerson has extensive experience in international negotiations
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Republicans reject reports Russia helped Trump win election
The reports follow President Obama's order for a review of all cyberattacks that took place during the 2016 election
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US-led coalition strike kills Islamic State leader in Syria: Pentagon
Coalition warplanes targeted and killed Tunisian Boubaker al-Hakim in Raqa
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OPEC and other oil giants agree cuts in 'historic' deal
Russia and 10 other non-OPEC states will reduce their production by more than half a million barrels per day
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US concerned about escalation along LoC
Susan Rice says Washington wants countries of the region to cooperate
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Twin bombing outside Istanbul soccer stadium kills 38, wounds 166
Police cordoned off the area immediately, which occurred near Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's office
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Taliban chief reinforces position with backing of two key members
Akundzada in May replaced former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansour who was killed by a US drone strike
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Suicide bomber kills at least 40 Yemeni troops in Aden
The attacker blew himself up as the troops were waiting to collect their salaries
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Colombian president receives Nobel Prize for peace accord
Juan Manuel Santos reached an accord with Marxist rebels to end a 52-year civil war
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Air raids pound Aleppo as US decries 'war crimes'
Regime's more than three-week-old assault aimed at retaking all of Aleppo has triggered mounting international outrage
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‘260 million children and adolescents out of school globally’
It is forecast that by 2030, half of 1.6 billion young people in the world won't have secondary level skills
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Pictures of the day: December 10, 2016
We look at 13 pictures from events around the world
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Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj to undergo kidney transplant today
She was admitted to hospital a month earlier for kidney failure
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Pakistani man convicted of sexual assault in Canada flees country
Moazzam Tariq, 29, flew to Pakistan from Montreal two weeks before his sentencing hearing
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France seeks to extend state of emergency until July
The socialist government imposed the state of emergency in November 2015
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Turkish jets hit 39 Islamic State targets, kill four militants
Turkey's ramping up of its air strikes in northern Syria are part of Ankara's almost four-month-old operation
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Iran jails 12 for 'un-Islamic' Instagram posts
The arrests were made under a two-year-old sting operation named “Spider II”
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Taiwan says China air force conducts long-range drills
China lodged a diplomatic protest over the call and blamed Taiwan for what it called a "petty" move
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Imposter Express Tribune Facebook page spreading fake news
The impostor page has been reported to Facebook authorities
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Four killed in Bulgarian train blast
Around 20 homes were smashed and many of the residents of the village of some 800 people were evacuated

















































