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Facebook, embattled in a scandal over the mishandling of user data, confirmed Monday that it also collected information from people beyond their social network use.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday pushed for a "progressive" free-trade agreement with the European Union in the coming months, while saying British ideas about turning the Commonwealth into a trading platform were a "longer run aspiration".

Hundreds of firefighters were Monday battling a large bushfire that was raging near Sydney suburbs, with authorities saying it was "miraculous" no houses had been damaged and no-one had been injured.

Guatemala voted Sunday on whether to send a long-running border dispute with neighboring Belize to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for final resolution.

American objectives in Syria have not altered, the White House said Sunday, reiterating that President Donald Trump wants US troops home "as quickly as possible."

Former US first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" after a series of hospitalisations and "has decided not to seek additional medical treatment," her husband's office said in a statement on Sunday.

NASA is poised to launch a $337 million washing machine-sized spacecraft that aims to vastly expand mankind’s search for planets beyond our solar system, particularly closer, Earth-sized ones that might harbor life.

 Syria's internal security forces entered Douma on Saturday, state media reported, saying the final rebel holdout on the edge of Damascus would be secured within "hours".

 The United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of pre-dawn strikes against Syria’s regime Saturday in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, lighting up the sky of Damascus as explosions shook the city. 

The United States, Britain and France launched punitive military strikes against Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime in response to its latest alleged chemical weapons atrocity, President Donald Trump announced Friday.

As Nigeria prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping, UNICEF reported on Friday that over 1,000 children have been abducted by jihadists since 2013.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday suspended parliament until next month in a shock move amid a deepening power struggle between him and his unity government's prime minister.

President Donald Trump put off a final decision on strikes against Syria following a crunch meeting with national security advisors on Thursday, as Moscow warned against any US move that could trigger a conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

President Donald Trump has directed senior aides to explore re-joining the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership if a "better deal" can be reached, the White House said on Thursday.

New Zealand is halting all new offshore oil and gas exploration as part of its efforts to deal with climate change, the centre-left government said on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump claimed ties with Russia are worse than during the Cold War – and angrily blamed special investigator Robert Mueller for fuelling "bad blood" with Moscow on Wednesday.

A former top Chinese Communist Party official who was once tipped for a leadership post was put on trial on bribery charges on Thursday, the latest target of President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption crusade.