A Saudi trainee military pilot launched a terror attack at a US Navy base after an instructor called him "porn stash", suggesting his moustache resembled that of a pornographic film actor.
Russia has been banned from the world's top sporting events for four years - including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 World Cup - for tampering with doping tests.
A leading UK Rohingya activist fears he and his family could be attacked by ardent supporters of the Mayanmar (Burma) government as the genocide trial against the regime begins in The Hague.
Senior American officials routinely misled the public about US success in Afghanistan, fiddling statistics and metrics to spin a conflict that they knew was going badly, according to a trove of confidential assessments.
Sitting on a park bench on the village green, the two ladies are genuinely "perplexed".
North Korea insulted US President Donald Trump again yesterday, calling him a "heedless and erratic old man" after he tweeted that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wouldn't want to abandon a special relationship between the two leaders and affect the American presidential election by resuming hostile acts.
As we prepare to wave goodbye to the year and enter a new decade, most of us will be happy to see the back of 2019. But it's not unfair to suggest Leo Varadkar will the be the most relieved of all.
