North Korea's Kim ends freeze of nuclear and missile tests

North Korean leaders says Pyongyang will show 'new strategic weapon' soon as he denounces US 'gangster-like demands'.

New technology: Are we trading our privacy for convenience?

How the same devices we happily carry in our pockets are being weaponised against us.

Police fire tear gas as Hong Kong rings in New Year

Protesters at the harbourfront counted down chanting 'Ten! Nine! Liberate Hong Kong, revolution now!'.

Pompeo hopes North Korea's Kim chooses 'peace and prosperity over conflict and war'

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday he hoped North Korea would choose peace over war, a response to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un saying would introduce a "new strategic weapon" in the near future.

Protesters burn security post at U.S. Embassy in Iraq in new foreign policy test for Trump

Protesters angry about U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, setting off a confrontation with guards and posing a new challenge for U.S. President Donald Trump.

Iran seizes ship, arrests 16 Malaysian crew members: state TV

State television says Revolutionary Guards confiscated 1.3 million litres of 'smuggled fuel' from unnamed vessel.

South Korea indicts former justice minister on charges of fraud, graft

South Korean prosecutors indicted former Justice Minister Cho Kuk on Tuesday on a dozen charges including bribery, two months after he resigned over a scandal involving family investment and university admissions for his children.