A train driver has died after his high-speed passenger train collided with a lorry at a level crossing in France while travelling at an estimated 160km/h (99mph).

The incident took place shortly before 07:00 (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday morning between Béthune and Lens in the northern Pas-de-Calais region.

Two people initially deemed to have sustained critical injuries following the crash were "doing well", while

Australia's most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

Ben Roberts-Smith - who left the defence force in 2013 - was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will face court over five counts of the war crime of murder. He will spend the night in a cell, before a bail hearing on Wednesday.

A defamation judgement in 2023

The leader of Taiwan's main opposition party has arrived in China and is expected to meet President Xi Jinping, in a closely-watched visit.

Cheng Li-wun, who took over as Kuomintang (KMT) chairperson last year, said she "gladly accepted" President Xi Jinping's invitation to visit and hopes to be a "bridge for peace".

She is expected to meet Xi later in her six-day trip which will span Shanghai, Nanjing and Beijing. Cheng is the

In the second half of the 20th Century, it was the race to develop nuclear arms that occupied some of the finest minds in the US and the Soviet Union.

Now the US finds itself in a different kind of race with a different adversary: China. The aim is to dominate technology; specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI).

It's a fight taking place in research labs, on university campuses, and in the offices of cutting-edge start-ups - watched over by leaders of some

US Vice-President JD Vance is due in Hungary to back veteran Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a key European ally of the Trump administration, in a tough parliamentary election.

Vance is expected to address an election rally with Orban in a football stadium in Budapest on Tuesday afternoon.

Last month, US President Donald Trump said Orban had his "complete and total support" in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (

Wandering down the unlit corridors of a six-storey building behind the Royal Hill casino, each door opens onto a different world.

In one there is a perfect replica of a Vietnamese bank. In another, you're in an Australian police station. A Chinese police officer's shirt hangs in one corner.

Motivational messages have been painted on the walls. "Money

President Donald Trump has set deadlines, made demands and issued threats over the course of the five-week joint US-Israeli war against Iran. But seldom have they been this explicit.

The new round of strikes against Iran will be devastating. They will begin at 20:00, Washington DC time (00:00 GMT) on Tuesday. Within four hours, every bridge and power plant in the nation will be "decimated".

"Very little is off-limits,"

US President Donald Trump has threatened to take out Iran "in one night" if it fails to make a deal before the deadline he set for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global energy route.

Trump's deadline for an "acceptable" deal - one that includes the free flow of energy through the Gulf - is set for 20:00EDT (00:0

A judge in California has granted rapper Lil Nas X entry into a mental health diversion programme after he was arrested for attacking police officers while wandering nearly naked through the streets of Los Angeles last August.

The judge told the Grammy-winning artist (real name Montero Lamar Hill) at a hearing on Monday that the charges may be quashed if he completes the programme and obeys all laws for the