Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified Tuesday at his corruption trial, becoming Israel's first sitting leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant. The trial has been underway for four years.

A car was set alight and two properties spray painted with anti-Israel messages in Sydney just days after an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which is being investigated as terrorism, Australian authorities said on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand for the first time in his long-running trial on corruption charges.