Victoria police say nobody has been injured and a crime scene has been established Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Major parts of a Caulfield Racecourse grandstand have been destroyed in a suspicious early morning fire. Fire Rescue Victoria responded to…

Germany will elect a new Bundestag on 23 February. Find out who is ahead in opinion polls and what coalitions are possible Germany is preparing for a general election to the Bundestag, the lower house of its parliament, on 23 February, after its “traffic-light” coalition of social democrats, liberals and greens collapsed. The country’s electoral…

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Russia says it shot down more than 120 drones overnight, in what would be one of the largest attacks of the war.

Diplomatic frenzy and rattled nerves in republic as mayor and former president reject US president’s comments From a modern control room high above the canal expansion – overlooking the Cocolí locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the Atlantic ocean – it barely registers that the era of gunboat diplomacy is returning to the Panama…