Flight tracking websites showed aircraft skirting around Iran and its airspace almost empty of civilian airplanes.

Thousands are reportedly dead in Iran as protests rage over the nation's collapsing currency. Nine.com.au Senior Journalist Maddison Leach asks the question - how did Iran got to this point?

Like all finely tuned pieces of diplomatic stagecraft, the K-pop drumming session between the leaders of Japan and South Korea was laden with none-too-subtle messaging.

South Korean president Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wore matching tracksuits and played the drums together at the end of a two-day summit in Nara, Japan.

The crew returning from the International Space Station are expected to splash down on Thursday evening (AEDT) in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego.

At least 32 people are dead after a construction crane fell onto a passenger train travelling east from Bangkok, in the second incident in a year to hit the same developer.

The future of the NATO alliance is at stake if the US president – who has stepped up his demands for the territory – seeks to take it by force.

The editor of the Washington Post said the highly unusual move raised “profound questions and concern around the constitutional protections for our work”.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors.

Rescue and search workers are toiling at the site of a major train accident in Thailand’s northeast Nakhon Ratchasima province, where a construction crane fell onto a moving passenger train.

Syria’s Assad, who had fought a brutal war against his people for 14 years, fell in less than 11 days. Ayatollah Khamenei faces a similar fate after turning his nation into a powder keg.

The rising death toll has rocked Iranian communities in Australia as they struggle to make contact with relatives who are cut off from the outside world.

The impact of the collapse caused the coaches to derail and catch fire.

It took just two words for Elon Musk to launch an extraordinary challenge to a system of control painstakingly built by Iran over decades. Now the regime is fighting back.

An Iranian protester could be arrested just under a week after his arrest, with his family reportedly denied access to him.