• COMMENT
• Anne Summers
• 1h ago

If you thought the shenanigans at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland were the weirdest thing happening in America this week, you would be wrong.

• Latika Bourke

A possible free trade agreement between Britain and Australia has been raised at Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's first meeting with Boris Johnson since his shock appointment as Foreign Secretary.

• Georgina Mitchell

New photos have been released by Kensington Palace to celebrate the third birthday of Prince George.

An Indian air force plane carrying 29 military personnel to a remote island chain in the Bay of Bengal has gone missing, the military said.

• Ron Corben

Vietnamese security officials say three men arrested trying to smuggle heroin through the post have links to Australia.

• Nick Miller

Scott Saunders decided to trace his great-uncle's footsteps until he found the place he may have fallen.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

To hear Donald Trump tell it, America is teetering on the brink of the abyss - and only he can pull it to safety.

• Nick Miller

Red Cross volunteer Mike Denison has just returned from the civil-war-torn east of Ukraine, a part of the world never particularly prosperous and now torn apart by a "frozen conflict". The Red Cross is there to help in a crisis but the locals fear this crisis is here to stay.

• Georgina Mitchell, Josephine Tovey, Lia Timson

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has delivered a controversial speech on the final day of the tumultuous party convention.

• ANALYSIS
• Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee

The dark portrait of America that Donald Trump sketched relies on statistics that fall apart upon close scrutiny.

• Simon Romero

Brazilian authorities arrested 10 members of an Islamist militant group that was organising terror attacks, raising tension around the country just two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games.

At times, the speech was drowned out by the cheering crowds in the arena of the Republican National Convention.

• Aurelien Breeden

The Bastille Day attacker had been planning the attack in Nice for months with the help of at least five accomplices, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

• Michael Finnegan

Donald Trump's campaign chairman has backpedalled over what the candidate would do if Russia attacked NATO allies.

Portuguese PM Antonio Guterres has emerged in early polling as leading the field to become UN secretary-general

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

To the neutral observer, the convention seems like an unmitigated disaster. But the bubble shows no sign of bursting.

• Tim Arango

An anxious nation awoke on Thursday to a text message from its leader with a martial tone.

• James Poniewozik

The Fox News boss built a power machine that outlasted presidents and set the ground for the success of the Republican candidates' firebrand conservatism.

• Michael Miller

'Sir, why did you shoot me?' the caretaker recalled asking the officer. 'He said, 'I don't know'."

• Sinikka Tarvainen

South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority wants permission to appeal the athlete's prison sentence describing it as "shockingly too lenient".

• Lisandra Paraguassu

Ten people have been arrested in Brazil on suspicion of belonging to a group backing Islamic State.

The South African government will appeal Oscar Pistorius' six-year murder sentence, Talk Radio 702 said on Thursday.

• EXCLUSIVE
• Sean Nicholls

The child recovery specialist at the centre of the botched 60 Minutes child kidnapping saga could be forced to stay in Lebanon for at least another two months after a dramatic legal intervention by the children's father.

• Jonathan Barrett and Swati Pandey

​Top searchers at the Dutch company leading the underwater hunt for Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 say they believe the plane may have glided down rather than dived in the final moments, meaning they have been scouring the wrong patch of ocean for two years.

• Chris Zappone

Republican divisions on full display as Senator Ted Cruz in speech refuses to endorse Donald Trump for president.