President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe's presidential election with 50.8 per cent of the vote, according to the country's Electoral Commission.

Apple hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the first private-sector company to exceed $1 trillion in market value.

Australia is trying to reboot its troubled relations with East Timor, with Julie Bishop being the first foreign minister to visit in five years.

A new website detailing deaths in custody will allow the community to scrutinise the Australian criminal justice system.

Queensland public hospitals and health care facilities are set to ban unhealthy junk food and sugary drinks in a move that hopes to curb the obesity epidemic.

Traditional owners have urged the United Nations to intervene in Adani’s proposed Carmichael mine by formally censuring Australia at a meeting in Geneva this month.

French lawmakers have voted to outlaw street harassers, with on the spot fines of up to $1180 Australian dollars for aggressive cat-callers.

The legislation aims to address sexual violence after a man attacked a young woman when she responded to his inappropriate remarks outside of a Paris cafe.

Minister for Gender Equality Marlene Schiappa said that previously street harassment had not been punished, but the new legislation will punish future offenders appropriately.

A glacier on Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain is no longer the country's highest point following record high Arctic melt.

Researches have been measuring the peak since 1880, and have found it melting by one meter every year for the past two decades. Since July 2nd it has lost four meters of snow.

Stockholm University researchers have attributed climate change to the weather event and are amongst many expressing concern of high temperatures, some of which have triggered wildfires across the country.

Almost 200 firefighters from Australia and New Zealand will head to the US today to be deployed in California and its neighbouring states, Oregon and Washington, as bushfires intensify.

The team includes fire management specialists and helicopter pilots.

Dangerously low percentages of fire containment caused the US authorities to search for Australian assistance because of our familiarity with bushfires.