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  1. Mike Pompeo announced as CIA director despite torture concerns

    The US Senate confirms Mike Pompeo to be President Donald Trump's Central Intelligence Agency director, despite some politicians' concerns he might expand surveillance or allow the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, which are widely considered to be torture.

  2. 'Great thing for the American worker': Trump cancels trade deal

    Donald Trump signs an executive order formally pulling the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, while also ordering the US government to stop hiring more workers.

  3. Trump reinstates global abortion gag rule

    US President Donald Trump reinstates a rule that bans US-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, a move which has dismayed women's rights advocates.

  4. 'Tense' Syria peace talks underway in Kazakhstan

    A Syrian opposition spokesman says the first day of talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana, have concluded, after rebel representatives met Russia's presidential envoy to discuss ways to reinforce a ceasefire.

  5. Trump's tweets are presidential records, but what about deletions and edits?

    A National Archives official says the US agency has yet to rule on whether it will be required to keep Donald Trump's altered or deleted tweets, which are considered as presidential records.

  6. US hit by deadly tornados and wild storms

    A powerful weather system sweeps up the US East Coast with pounding rain and high winds, after tornados killed at least 18 people in Georgia and Mississippi over the weekend.

  7. George HW Bush ready to leave intensive care, wife Barbara goes home

    Former President George HW Bush is still suffering from pneumonia, but is well enough to leave the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital, doctors say.

  8. 'Allo 'Allo! actor Gorden Kaye dies aged 75

    Gorden Kaye, who played the put-upon cafe owner Rene Artois on the hit 1980s show 'Allo 'Allo!, dies in a British care home.

  9. Ecclestone's long, contentious reign as F1 boss ends

    Bernie Ecclestone's reign as boss of Formula 1 is no more — look back at some of the British magnate's most controversial moments while in charge of the sport.

  10. Fossils of huge 'wolf-sized' otter unearthed in China

    Scientists unearthed fossils of an intriguingly large otter as big as a wolf that frolicked in rivers and lakes in south-western China about 6.2 million years ago.

  11. Ethics lawyers suing Trump over business conflicts of interest

    A legal watchdog group files a lawsuit alleging that US President Donald Trump is violating the constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments.

  12. Indonesian migrants drown after boat capsizes near Malaysia

    The bodies of 10 people believed to be Indonesian migrants are found washed ashore in Malaysia not far from a capsized boat.

  13. Three puppies found alive in Italy avalanche rubble

    Emergency crews digging into an avalanche-slammed hotel are cheered by the discovery of three puppies who survived for days under tonnes of snow, giving them new hope for the 22 people still missing in the disaster.

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  1. A 'vaccine' for fake news?

    Scientists develop a "vaccine" to inoculate the public against misinformation about climate change.

  2. Russia's role in Syria

    Alexey Khlebnikov of the Russian International Affairs Council discusses the renewed Syria peace talks with Beverley O'Connor.

  3. 'Two-state solution' fiction?

    The approval of 560 new units to be built in East Jerusalem is being taken by many as evidence that the Israeli-Palestinian "two-state solution" is drifting towards fiction.

  4. Supreme Court nomination

    An early job for Donald Trump will be to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Who he picks could set the course of the court for a generation to come.

  5. Resettling Mumbai's slums

    An ambitious Indian Government plan to rehouse residents of Mumbai's biggest and oldest slum hits a snag — a lack of trust.

  6. Biggest inauguration ever?

    President Donald Trump's team says his inauguration was watched by more people than any other. It wasn't.

  7. Trump's time for talk is over

    As President, Donald Trump must now learn to work with the very politicians he rose to power railing against.

  8. El Chapo's new prison home

    How secure is the new Manhattan prison home of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman?

  9. Donald Trump's first full day

    After a fiery campaign based around lots of "day one" promises, what did President Donald Trump do on his first full day in office?

  10. Housing Indonesia's dogs

    The future was bleak for tiny terrier Pippin until an Indonesian dog rescue charity found a new home for him overseas.

  11. Trump upends status quo

    The new US President Donald Trump makes it clear he plans on bringing the radical change to the White House.

  12. Australia in the firing line

    If a major conflict erupted between the United States and China, many observers believe it will happen in Australia's backyard.

  13. Donald Trump's promises

    Winning, infrastructure and ending terrorism — here are the promises from the new POTUS.

  14. Inauguration in pictures

    Here's how inauguration day has unfolded in pictures as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.

  15. China's questionable data

    To the absolute surprise of no one, Chinese economic growth came in at an annualised growth rate of 6.7 per cent in 2016.

Asia Pacific

  1. Malaysia withdraws reward to find MH370

    The Malaysian Government has withdrawn its offer of a reward to find missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

    The three-year underwater search for the Boeing 777 that disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board has officially ended with the search vessel Fugro Equator docking in Fremantle today.

    Transport Minister Darren Chester and his Malaysian counterpart Liow Tiong Lai went onboard the Fugro Equator to thank the crew.

  1. Heavy flooding in Tahiti

    Heavy flooding in French Polynesia leaves left thousands without power and closes Tahiti's international airport.

  2. Asylum seeker rape charge

    Papua New Guinea police charge an asylum seeker on Manus Island with sexually assaulting a local woman.

  3. Train derails killing dozens

    At least 39 people are dead and 50 injured after a passenger train derailed in eastern India, police say.

  4. China's 'grim' Taiwan relations

    Relations between China and Taiwan this year will be "even more complex and grim," a senior official says.

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Posted April 08, 2013 12:22:49 | Updated January 15, 2016 16:06:02

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