World
'Caught in a political war': First sailors set free after months stuck at sea
But scores of others remain stranded in the multibillion-dollar trade dispute between Australia and China.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Explainer
War
Miniskirts and mujahideen: how did Afghanistan come to be defined by war?
- by Maher Mughrabi
Opinion & Perspectives
North America
Biden's inauguration rehearsal evacuated after nearby fire
The US Capitol complex temporarily locked down during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration after a nearby fire caused security concerns.
- by Andrew Taylor, Colleen Long and Eric Tucker
Opinion
Donald Trump
Capitol rioters led to their deaths by a false prophet
The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol were deplorables. But they were also victims.
- by Julie Szego
No farewell parade: Trump's dawn departure to be a subdued affair
- by Jennifer Jacobs and Steve Holland
Europe
Norway finds no direct link between elderly deaths and vaccine
- by Lars Erik Taraldsen
Navalny held in pre-trial detention as Moscow tells West to butt out
- by Anton Zverev and Andrew Osborn
Kremlin critic Navalny detained after returning to Russia
- by Polina Ivanova and Andrew Osborn
Asia
Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong sent back to prison by South Korean court over bribery
In a much-anticipated retrial, the Seoul High Court found Lee guilty of bribing then-President Park Geun-hye and her close confidante in 2015.
- by Kim Tong-hyung
Indian zoo stops feeding chickens to hawks on bird flu fears
Serological tests of a brown fish owl, which died at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, confirmed that the bird was infected with the H5N8 virus.
- by Atul Prakash
Chinese economy picks up speed, ends 2020 in solid position despite COVID
- by Gabriel Crossley and Kevin Yao
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Netanyahu challenger pledges change with Biden but stands firm on settlements
Gideon Saar, who defected from Netanyahu's ruling Likud party to form the New Hope party last month, shares the Israeli PM's hardline nationalistic ideology.
- by Josef Federman
Taliban blamed as two female judges shot dead in Afghanistan
- by Ben Farmer and Sami Yusafzai
Guatemala cracks down on migrant caravan bound for United States
- by Sofia Menchu and Gustavo Palencia
COVID crisis in Amazonas as 1000 a day die in Brazil
- by Bruno Kelly and Jamie McGeever