• Damon Lin
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Taiwanese fishing boats set sail for Taiwan's sole holding in the South China Sea in protest against a court ruling that deems it a rock rather than an island.

• Emily Flitter

If he wins the presidency, Donald Trump could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Chris Christie said.

• Melissa Eddy

An Afghan teenager who arrived as a refugee last year told confidants in Germany at the weekend he had lost a close friend in Afghanistan.

• Daniel Flitton

Australia has banned an Indian engineer from studying in Melbourne over weapons of mass destruction fears.

A prominent journalist working for the online investigative newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning.

• Jewel Topsfield

Australia was complicit in crimes against humanity committed by Indonesia during an anti-communist purge in 1965, according to a civil society tribunal in The Hague.

• Paul McGeough

Judging by the convention so far, Donald Trump believes he can win by making the election a referendum on Hillary Clinton.

• Aaron Blake

Of Donald Trump's four adult children, one remains a relative unknown.

President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have discussed the status of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Turkish authorities for masterminding a recent failed coup, during a call, the White House says.

• Steven T. Dennis, Terrence Dopp and Mark Niquette

Republicans sought to move past a rocky first night of their nominating convention and unify their party Tuesday against Hillary Clinton, as their nominee Donald Trump predicted victory and said, "We have to go all the way."

• Alissa J. Rubin and Lilia Blaise

The Nice terror attacks took a heavy toll on the local Muslim community, which says at least 30 of the 84 people killed were Muslim.

• Callum Borchers

The journalist widely credited as the first to document the apparent plagiarism wasn't at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland and wasn't even assigned to cover the convention at all. He was 2000 miles away at a coffee shop in Los Angeles, tweeting.

• Nick Miller

One hundred years on, it's the little details that lift history to life. Justin Breguet was a bread carter in Geelong. Just 18 years old, his service record includes a permission slip from his parents.

• Juliet Eilperin

President Barack Obama has published an open letter to law enforcement in the wake of two deadly shootings that claimed eight officers' lives.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

Trump finally has a bit of political star power in Tuesday's line-up of speakers but they will have to dance around the failings of the Republican Party.

Gunmen killed eight fishermen in the popular Mexican surf resort of Puerto Escondido late on Monday, prosecutors said, in a rare shooting for a part of the country that has largely avoided serious gang violence.

• Monique Garcia

Former Republican presidential contender Chris Christie has defended Melania Trump against plagiarism accusations, saying that "93 per cent" of her speech to the Republican National Convention was original.

• 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.