Europe

Ukraine has called for an emergency meeting with the United Nations Security Council after a Russian strike on Kyiv killed 12 people.

After six tragic deaths, including two Australian teens, families are calling for the Laotian venue to be shut down permanently as it prepares to reopen under a new name.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The EU’s first-ever Commissioner for Defence and Space has vowed Europe will be a reliable partner to Australia today and always amid growing uncertainty over the AUKUS agreement.

Ukraine’s military claims to have struck a drone manufacturing facility in Russia’s Tatarstan region, in an attack that, according to local authorities, resulted in one fatality and left 13 others injured.

At least two people have died in a Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv which sparked fires in a five-storey apartment building.

The death toll from a horrific school shooting in Graz, Austria, has risen as a 10th victim died in hospital following the country’s worst school shooting in modern history. 

A woman who endured one of the most horrific childhoods imaginable has spoken out about growing up with a father who killed and ate her stepmother. WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war including the release of young and seriously injured soldiers on both sides.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to press on with prisoner exchanges with Russia amid a dispute over timing between the two sides.

Ukrainian authorities have rejected statements by Russian officials that they are delaying an exchange of killed soldiers' bodies.

Russia says its overnight missile and drone strikes on Ukraine were in response to its aircraft being destroyed.

A security guard has admitted to beheading a woman before stuffing her body parts in a garbage bag and suitcase in a town near one of Europe’s world-renowned tourist destinations. 

Australia is within striking distance of signing a free trade agreement with the European Union, a deal that would send a clear message to other trading nations - but there is a sticking point.

Aya Nakamura’s performance at the July 2024 Oympics opening ceremony sparked a political firestorm among far-Right politicians and conservatives.

Psychological trauma has been attributed to the assisted suicide of a euthanasia advocate, who was recently arrested for his involvement in the use of a suicide pod in Switzerland.