Servers at data centres in Sydney and Melbourne were to blame but the exact cause remains unknown.

Speaking ahead of a Nato summit, the president says US negotiators can keep talking with the Iranians "if they want".

The US has launched the strikes on Iran in response to attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

While Cuban officials said that power had been mostly restored, those still left in the dark vented their anger.

Adeniyi Adeyemi allegedly forged a letter of appointment and secured funding for an agency the presidency knew nothing about.

The German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients.

Rescuers pull bodies from the mud after heavy monsoon rains batter the south-eastern coast.

Police said a major operation was under way in the area of Welfen-Gymnasium secondary school in Schongau, Bavaria.