West Aceh bans outdoor concerts: Sharia law

Jewel Topsfield 12:15 AM   Outdoor music concerts have been banned from a regency in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on the grounds they violate Sharia law.

Could a Pirate Party MP be Iceland's next PM?

Nick Miller 12:13 AM   Former Australian resident and colleague of Julian Assange, now official 'poetician' for Iceland's Pirate Party, might be her country's next leader.

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RBA subsidiary approved bribes, court told

Nick Miller 9:31 PM   An Australian Reserve Bank subsidiary gave the go-ahead for a regional manager to bribe a Nigerian official to secure millions of dollars in new business, a UK court has been told.

Pakistani city offers bounty for killer rats

Over the past year, according to Peshawar's mayor, eight children have been killed by rats. 

Brazilian VP Temer risking impeachment

3:21 PM   The man who would take over if Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is impeached, Vice President Michel Temer, could now be running the risk of impeachment himself.

Republican Ted Cruz claims his 'turning point'

Paul McGeough 12:09 AM   After a run-away win in the Wisconsin primary vote on Tuesday, underdog Texas Senator Ted Cruz made two brash predictions.

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Greece halts migrant deportations on day two of EU deal

Nick Squires and Oscar Webb 12:07 AM   The expulsion of migrants from Greece to Turkey has been suspended just a day after it began after the authorities admitted not having enough resources with deal with asylum seekers.

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Hollywood figures named in Panama Papers

Kylie Northover 8:03 PM   As the Panama Papers rock the political and corporate worlds, now some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry might well be getting nervous too.

Panama Papers: Australian software firm helps join dots

Byron Kaye 8:01 PM   Software produced by a little-known Australian developer has helped journalists piece together news leads from the mountains of data found in the contents of the Panama Papers, one of the biggest document leaks in history.

US Presidential elections: Wisconsin primary

Stephen Samuelson, Chris Zappone 7:11 PM   Can Ted Cruz turn the tide against Donald Trump in the Republicans' race and will Bernie Sanders continue to eat away at Hillary Clinton's lead for the Democrats' nomination?

Australian facing drug charges arrested in Bali over fake IDs

Jewel Topsfield 7:06 PM   An Australian man facing drug charges in Perth has been arrested in Bali for allegedly impersonating another Australian and using multiple fake identities.

'The heat was relentless'

Peter Hannam 6:13 PM   From hot oceans to shrinking Arctic ice and glaciers, the evidence of a warming planet has gone into overdrive in the first three months of 2016.

'Green and gold until I'm dead and cold'

Chris Cillizza 5:16 PM   The former Republican vice-presidential nominee recited amateurish and ridiculous doggerel without any sense of irony.

Rights group says executions on rise

2:19 PM   Amnesty International reports that there was a dramatic 54 per cent increase in executions globally in 2015, with Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia responsible for nearly 90 per cent of the killings.

New Chinese lighthouse shines on artificial island in South China Sea

Ben Blanchard 12:09 PM   China has begun operating a lighthouse on one of its artificial islands in the South China Sea near the route a US warship sailed last year to challenge China's territorial claims.

Indonesia's orang-utans suffer as fires rage and land is cleared

Joe Cochrane 11:51 AM   Katty, a docile, orange-haired preschooler, fell from a tree with a thump. Her teacher quickly picked her up, dusted off her bottom, refastened her white disposable diaper and placed her back on a branch more than seven feet off the ground.

Iceland's PM becomes first casualty of Panama Papers

Alistair Scrutton and Anna Ringstrom 6:57 AM   Prime Minister is the first casualty of the "Panama Papers" a leaked collection of documents revealing the financial arrangements of politicians and public figures from around the world.

Donald Trump heading for loss in Wisconsin

Paul McGeough 6:02 AM   As voting opened in Wisconsin on Tuesday morning, both presumptive candidates, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, were tipped to lose.

'Near death experience': Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire halts worst violence in decades

Andrew Roth 4:56 AM   At least 50 people have died since heavy fighting resumed on the front lines of one of the former Soviet Union's most intractable ethnic conflicts.