• David E. Sanger and Rick Gladstone

President Xi Jinping had promised 'no militarisation' but experts say structures they've spotted on disputed islets in the South China Sea have room for 'any fighter-jet in the People's Liberation Army Air Force'.

• Colby Itkowitz

Neighbours were worried after they heard crying. Police found a husband and wife who weren't in danger, just old, sad and lonely. Their solution? Some good food and a sympathetic ear.

• Jewel Topsfield

Canberra has closed the book on war crimes in East Timor allegedly committed by a former general who's now Indonesia's chief security minister.

• Michael E. Miller

Police say a neck injury left a 10-year-old boy dead at the foot of the world's highest water slide. There are hints on social media that the tragedy may have been even more gruesome.

• ANALYSIS
• Chris Zappone

Feeling overwhelmed by the barrage of Donald Trump news may in fact be part of the strategy for the candidate's campaign.

• Gul Yousafzai

A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 63 people and wounded dozens more in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in Quetta,

Automated signals received from Flight MH370 show the Malaysia Airlines plane plunged into the Indian Ocean at a speed of up to 20,000 feet a minute in its final moments before crashing.

The US government accidentally sold a bag carried to the moon aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft and used for the first sample of lunar material and is now in a legal fight to recover it.

• Jonathan Landay

The statement on Monday was the latest repudiation of Trump's candidacy by veteran Republican national security specialists, and was remarkable for the harshness of its language.

• ANALYSIS
• Paul McGeough

Donald Trump reiterates his criticism of NAFTA and TPP trade deals and even says "we'll put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work".

• Erik Kirschbaum

A Chinese tourist who tried to report a stolen wallet during a visit to Germany unwittingly signed an asylum application that left him stranded as a refugee for two weeks.

• Alan Rappeport

Some of Mr Trump's economic ideas stray from conservative orthodoxy, but despite his populist proposals, he also seems ready to take cues from Wall Street.

A photo of Father Edward Daly waving a blood-stained white handkerchief become one of the iconic images of Bloody Sunday.

• Jewel Topsfield

The anonymity of payments using digital currencies make them attractive for terrorism financing.

• Jewel Topsfield

Activist has alleged the military and police were involved in a drug smuggling syndicate.

• Jonathan Soble

Japan's emperor would like to retire. But the question is whether the Japanese people and their leaders will let him.

• Kim Soffen, Philip Bump

Five months after Donald Trump used his time on the national debate stage to tell America that his hands - and therefore a certain other body part - were properly sized, the controversy has finally been resolved.

• David Sanger

He was a young Iranian scientist with two very different stories to tell. But his love for his son could have been his undoing.

• Peter Holley

Donald Trump's candidacy had electrified America's far right, which is hoping his outspokenness will give them better access to the political mainstream

• Mark Mazzetti, Anne Barnard and Eric Schmitt

In the last year, for the first time since Afghanistan in the 1980s, the CIA and the Russians have been at war. But the outcome has been very different.

• Lindsay Murdoch

​Thailand voted to accept a military-backed constitution on Sunday that will perpetuate the power of the country's generals and open the way for elections next year.

• Aislinn Laing

As world's best athletes gathered in Rio, the disgraced Paralympian was rushed to hospital under heavy guard after injuring his wrists in his prison cell.

The friends of a Melbourne man found dead at the bottom of a Bangkok high-rise while on holiday have set up a fundraising page to bring his body home.

• Tara Patel

Terrorist attacks are taking their toll on France's tourism industry, with Paris bearing the brunt of a drop in visits by big-spending US holidaymakers.

Iranian scientist who says he resisted CIA pressure to spill Tehran's nuclear secrets to his country's 'number-one enemy' has been executed for treason.