• Paul McGeough

For a time, would-be first lady Melania Trump was the high point of a Republican convention in which speakers alternately scared the bejesus out of delegates and then pledged to make them safe.

When Melania Trump took to the stage on Monday night, the stakes were high. Now she has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

• Tom McIlroy

Fundraising emails from Donald Trump's presidential campaign received by Victorian Labor MP Tim Watts are included in a complaint to the US Federal Election Commission against the Republican candidate.

• Lucas Shaw and Anousha Sakoui

Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive officer of Fox News who has been accused of sexual harassment by former anchor may be sacked, according a report.

• Paul McGeough

Mrs Trumps's speech at the Republican convention had striking similarities to one made by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, in 2008.

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• Paul McGeough

One of Trump's key advisers said the presumptive candidate would be taking cues from Richard Nixon's approach to law and order.

• Nick Miller

"I never knew before that men could be so brave & bear so much pain," Victor Offe wrote a century ago.

• Latika Bourke

Nice: The man behind the Nice attack not practise Islam, but did show an interest in the so-called Islamic State in the weeks leading up to his murderous rampage.

Wikileaks says it is preparing to release more than 300,000 documents related to the Turkish government in the wake of last weekend's failed coup.

• Steve Holland

As Republicans spilled into Cleveland on Monday to nominate Donald Trump as their presidential candidate, 2012 nominee Mitt Romney had an equally crucial task: Entertaining his grandchildren at his lakeside summer house in New Hampshire.

• Aaron Blake

She will take the stage in Cleveland as the least-liked potential first lady since at least 1992.

• Mark Berman and Willam Wan

Authorities said that if a SWAT team member had not been able to kill the gunman, his massacre might only have been getting started. One official said the police's "militarized tactics" prevented more carnage.

• Julie Power

German police have killed a 17-year-old Afghan man who seriously injured four people with an axe on a commuter train in the country's south.

• Richard Fausset, Frances Robles and John Eligon

Gavin Long was an entrepreneur, a self-published author, a nutrition and fitness counsellor, a proponent of the American gospel of self-improvement. He considered himself a lifestyle coach, even though he had failed in marriage; neglected to pay his taxes and was, at one point, living on $US500 per month.

• Chris Zappone

China will cut off access to part of the South China Sea for military drills, days after an international tribunal ruled against Beijing's broad claim to the waters.

Malaysia Airlines has struck a deal to settle damages claims for most victims of its MH17 flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine two years ago.

Malaysia Airlines has struck a deal to settle damages claims for most victims of its MH17 flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine two years ago.

• Choe Sang-hun

A top South Korean prosecutor has been arrested on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes from the owner of Nexon, maker of