Pope Francis has ushered in Christmas by saying God loves everyone - "even the worst of us".
Since September, close to 3,000 firefighters have been out every day in NSW battling blazes the size of small European countries. Close to 90% of those people on the ground are unpaid volunteers, says the NSW RFS, the government-funded organisation leading the fight.
The White House sought to freeze aid to Ukraine just 91 minutes after President Trump spoke to President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone in July, a newly-released government email has revealed.
French President Emmanuel Macron has appealed to transport unions to suspend strikes that threaten travel chaos over the Christmas holidays.
MPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.
MPs will vote on Friday on whether to back the prime minister's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.
Indian police have detained hundreds who defied a ban on protests against a controversial new citizenship law.
The Trump administration has said it does not consider the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 to be a genocide, rejecting votes in the US Congress.
Donald Trump has become the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, setting up a trial in the Senate that will decide whether he remains in office.
Tony Blair is warning that Labour will be "replaced" as a serious political force if it tries to "whitewash" the scale of its election defeat.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.