Gunner visits country he helped save, dies

US Air Force Master Sergeant Melvin Rector long carried Britain in his heart after he helped defend it during World War II, but 70 years passed without him stepping foot in the country.

Philippine death squads in business

Five days after voters elected Rodrigo Duterte as their next president, two masked gunmen cruised Davao's suburbs on a motorbike, looking for their kill.

Strikes crippiling France's fuel supplies

Some of the most severe protests since the famous student upheavals of 1968, have caused fuel shortages and delays across sea, air and land transport.

Trump's funding deal already under fire

Paul McGeough 11:03 AM   The agreement by which the Republican Party will raise more than $US1 billion to fund Donald Trump's presidential bid already candidate's surrogates complaining.

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Fallujah fight to show who rules Iraq

Paul McGeough 11:13 AM   Iraq's PM needs to prove he is in charge. But will that have dire consequences for the inhabitants of the city of Fallujah?

Refugee leaves Cambodia after being deeply unhappy with move from Nauru

Lindsay Murdoch 12:27 AM   Now only one refugee remains in Cambodia under Australia's controversial $55 million agreement.

German cardinal stands in refugee boat to address crowd

Georgina Mitchell 12:16 AM   Rainer Maria Woelki used the boat to make a plea for compassion.

Sydney and much of Australia caught in a hot spell

Peter Hannam 11:57 PM   May and autumn will come close to being a record warm ones for Sydney, the state and the rest of Australia as the giant El Nino added a hot overlay to temperatures that are rising in the background here and in most parts of the world.

Everest rescuers retrieve Maria Strydom's body

11:57 PM   KATHMANDU, May 27 Reuters - A rescue helicopter has brought the body of Australian climber Maria Strydom from Mount Everest to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, a week after she died on the world's tallest mountain.

Husband vows to bring Maria's body home from Everest

Daniella Miletic 11:34 PM   The husband of a Melbourne woman who died in his arms on Mount Everest has vowed to bring home the body of his beloved wife. 

Indonesia's new child rape punishments a pyrrhic victory for women's advocates

Jewel Topsfield 4:51 PM   Indonesia's harsh new punishments for child sex offenders - including the death penalty and chemical castration - represent something of a pyrrhic victory for women's advocates in Jakarta.

Two Australians injured in fatal speedboat crash near Koh Samui, Thailand

Megan Levy 4:16 PM   At least two Australians have been injured in a speedboat crash that killed two other tourists near the popular holiday island of Koh Samui in Thailand, officials say.

Aussie arrested over Bali flight 'prank'

4:06 PM   An Australian man has been arrested in Bali after his AirAsia flight landed for reportedly threatening to jump out of the plane, but he says he was joking.

Donald Trump is all about himself - and sees no reason to change

Dan Balz 2:55 PM   Against a field of experienced politicians, Trump had the last laugh. Why should he now bend to those telling him to run for president another way?

Korean words, straight from the elephant's mouth

Russell Goldman 2:49 PM   There's an elephant at a zoo outside Seoul that speaks Korean.

'When you find my body, please call my husband,' wrote dying hiker, lost along the Appalachian Trail

Jess Bidgood 2:30 PM   She was afraid of being alone and prone to anxiety, a diminutive 66-year-old woman with a poor sense of direction, hiking the Appalachian Trail by herself. Lost, she waited nearly a month in the Maine woods for help that never came.

Is North Korea behind bank attacks?

Nicole Perlroth and Michael Corkery 1:42 PM   It would be the first known case of a nation using digital attacks to boost its coffers.

Trump clinches US Republican nomination

12:55 PM   Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for US president, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter campaign.

Australian family faces deportation from Scotland

Elisabeth O'Leary 11:55 AM   An Australian family who arrived in Scotland four years ago during a drive to attract people to live in rural areas, is now battling deportation under British immigration rules which changed after they arrived.

Chinese detergent ad accused of being 'jaw-droppingly racist'

Adam Boult 11:41 AM   A Chinese advert for laundry detergent has been winning attention for all the wrong reasons.

Chinese bus to glide above traffic

Emily Feng 11:36 AM   Could the solution to China's urban gridlock be a flying bus?

Australia cut from UN climate report

Peter Hannam 11:27 AM   The Turnbull government intervened to excise references to Australia in a United Nations report on the risk of climate change to sites including the Great Barrier Reef in a move dubbed by one of the report's reviewer as "disgusting".

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Refusing to shake a teacher's hand will attract a fine

Dan Bilefsky 10:50 AM   After a worldwide controversy, a Swiss court has ruled students cannot refuse to shake their teacher's hand on religious grounds.

Thai man bitten on penis by python in squat toilet

10:14 AM   A Thai man is recovering from a bloody encounter with a 3 metre python that slithered through the plumbing of his home and latched its jaws onto his penis as he was using a squat toilet.

Hero of Canadian Parliament springs to action again, takes down protester in Dublin

10:12 AM   A Canadian diplomat who became a national hero when he shot a jihadi gunman inside the Ottawa parliament has tackled and dragged a protester away from a military ceremony in Dublin.