Rebecca Armitage

A top Russian military general and his assistant were taken out by a remote bomb detonated when they exited an apartment building in Moscow. But how significant is the killing and how could Putin respond?

From Bashar al-Assad's abandoned palace to the site of one of the country's most horrific massacres, the ABC spent three days in Syria, uncovering the fallen dictator's secrets.

On the evening of December 20, 1968, at the end of a tumultuous and frightening year for the United States, a new monster emerged from the dark.

On November 20, 1974, John Stonehouse was on a business trip in the United States when he vanished after going for an afternoon dip in the Atlantic Ocean.

In a social media ecosystem already rife with misogyny, racism and aggression, experts say it's remarkably easy to shape the narrative around a public figure through "astroturfing".

For decades, Harold Shipman was known as "the good doctor", a GP in the British town of Hyde, who was always happy to make house calls to visit his elderly patients.

Once dismissed as "the Paris Hilton of Canadian politics", Justin Trudeau defied expectations by holding onto power for almost a decade. But his tumultuous period in office was often defined by scandals of his own making.

It appears as if both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are staking their foreign policy legacies on the Israel Hamas ceasefire agreement. And analysts believe both men were crucial to getting both sides to finally reach a deal.

President Donald Trump has declared that America's golden age "begins right now" as he was sworn back into office on a day that featured frigid weather, tech bros, a flurry of executive orders, and a surprise move by Joe Biden. These were the key takeaways.

Donald Trump promised to act with "historic speed and strength" when he entered the oval office and by the time he completed his first 24 hours in the job, he delivered on that pledge.