Australia will get its fifth prime minister in eight years after the ruling Liberal Party on Monday voted out Tony Abbott in favor of longtime rival Malcolm Turnbull, following months of speculation and crumbling support from voters.
A swiftly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee as it roared unchecked through the Northern California community of Middletown and nearby neighborhoods, fire officials said on Sunday.
A San Francisco man was arrested and scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Sept 24 on hate-crime and vandalism charges.
Desde Alla (From Afar), a somber tale of gay attraction across Venezuela's social divide, won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday on a night to remember for Latin American cinema.
Nintendo will celebrated the 30th anniversary of Super Mario, one of the best-known characters in video game history, at an event in Tokyo on Sunday evening where artists will play his theme music to fans dressed up as the hyperactive plumber.
Yemen's exiled government said on Sunday it would no longer attend UN-mediated peace talks with its Houthi adversaries.
After a landslide victory in the general election by his party, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said late on Saturday that he will form his cabinet over the next two weeks.
Palestinians clashed with Israeli police officers at a Jerusalem flashpoint, the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, on Sunday just hours before the start of the Jewish New Year, police and witnesses said.
Hungary is rushing to erect a fence along its southern border to block migrants - several thousand every night - from entering the country and from there the European Union.
Anti-austerity left-winger Jeremy Corbyn's crushing win to become leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party could divide his party's MPs but give a boost to its grassroots power, commentators said on Sunday.
Germany and other western European powers need to work with Russia as well as the United States to solve the crisis in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday.
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