A tornado rips through Sydney, with one weather station recording the fastest ever wind speeds in the state of New South Wales.

North Korea's highest court has sentenced a Canadian pastor to a life term of hard labour for "crimes against the state", reports say.

China's President Xi Jinping calls on countries to respect one another's right to choose how to develop and regulate their internet.

India's Supreme Court announces a slew of measures to curb record pollution levels in the capital, Delhi.

Japan's Supreme Court upholds a 19th-Century law that married couples must have the same surname, a blow to women's rights activists who said it was discriminatory.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are expected to clash, breaking their months-long entente in the last Republican debate of 2015.

Baltimore jurors in the first Freddie Gray trial have been ordered to keep deliberating after they said could not reach a verdict.

Leaders from Libya's two rival parliaments meet for the first time but the signing of a UN-backed plan for a national unity government is put back.