Flowing curls of hair swept back from a resolute gaze under her Phrygian cap: President Emmanuel Macron presented yesterday a distinctively modern face for France’s traditional symbol of its revolutionary values.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) against cultivating closer ties with Ukraine and Georgia, saying such a policy was irresponsible and would have unspecified consequences for the alliance.

Nicaragua yesterday marked the anniversary of its leftwing Sandinista revolution victory 39 years ago — but the commemorations were overshadowed by President Daniel Ortega’s deadly crackdown on opponents calling for his ouster.

Police were holding six men yesterday after a Russian tourist was allegedly drugged and gang-raped in a popular tourist town in Tamil Nadu, officials said.

A delegation of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders yesterday sought support from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for a no-confidence motion it has tabled in the Lok Sabha against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Their violent kicks rattle the small army plane flying over Siberia as it transports the four rare horses from Prague to the vast Mongolian steppe where the once near-extinct species is slowly recovering.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday that Pope Francis must sack an Australian archbishop convicted of concealing child sex abuse.

An Indonesian volcano known as the “child” of the legendary Krakatoa erupted yesterday, spewing a plume of ash high into the sky as molten lava streamed down from its summit.

The Philippines issued yesterday a fresh deportation order for an elderly Australian nun who angered President Rodrigo Duterte, as her lawyers pledged to block her expulsion.

Happiness is a birthday cake, a meal of chicken rice, a warm bed and a trip to buy a new mobile telephone.

Two youngsters frolicking in the surf miles apart along the Fire Island National Seashore in New York suffered puncture wounds to their legs on Wednesday in apparent shark attacks that would mark the state’s first such incidents in 70 years, authorities said.

A defiant US President Donald Trump said yesterday that he is looking forward to another meeting with Vladimir Putin, assailing media who failed to recognise the “great success” of their first summit as the “enemy of the people”.