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  1. Trump to increase defence spending by $70 billion

    US President Donald Trump proposes a $US54 billion ($70 billion) increase in military spending to be funded by cuts elsewhere in government, including in foreign aid, the White House says.

  2. Takata pleads guilty in faulty air bag scandal, agrees to pay $1.3 billion

    Japanese auto parts maker Takata pleads guilty to fraud and agrees to pay a $1.3 billion penalty for concealing a deadly defect in millions of its air bags.

  3. Abu Sayyaf militants behead German hostage

    Abu Sayyaf extremists in the Philippines release a video showing the beheading of German hostage Jurgen Gustav Kantner, in the first sign the brutal Filipino militants carried out a threat to kill him after a ransom deadline lapsed over the weekend.

  4. Cambodia 'too busy' for counter-terror exercise with Australia

    Cambodia cancels a counter-terrorism exercise with Australia, just two months after holding its first major army drills with China.

  5. WHO lists world's most threatening superbugs

    New antibiotics need to be developed urgently to combat 12 families of bacteria, the World Health Organisation says, describing these "priority pathogens" as the greatest threats to human health.

  6. Don't blame Beatty: How the Oscars stuff-up happened

    Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read out the wrong best picture winner in "the craziest Oscar moment of all time", but how did it happen?

  7. Sara Connor to address judges in final day of Bali murder trial hearings

    Byron Bay woman Sara Connor will directly address judges in her murder trial today in a bid to avoid a possible 15-year jail sentence for her role in the death of a Bali police officer.

  8. Muhammad Ali Jr says airport detention made him feel 'violated'

    Muhammad Ali's son and former partner speak out about being detained by airport officials in Florida, describing it as religious profiling and "the kind of wrong" the boxing great fought against.

  9. Civilians flee Mosul as Iraqi forces push Islamic State back

    Thousands of civilians flee western Mosul as government forces continue to push Islamic State militants back in their last key stronghold in Iraq.

  10. British Government 'betrayed children' sent to Fairbridge farms

    An historic inquiry into child sexual abuse in Britain will hear that up to 60 per cent of the child migrants sent to Fairbridge farms in Australia were sexually abused.

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  1. 'Enemy of the people'

    How should the press respond to Donald Trump's bypassing of mainstream media outlets by dismissing them as "fake news"?

  2. SpaceX: Visiting the Moon

    Two tourists are paying SpaceX an undisclosed sum to take a trip around the Moon in 2018.

  3. Discontent under Putin

    As thousands march in Moscow to remember an assassinated opposition leader, speaking out against the Kremlin is tougher than ever.

  4. Australia's case for the UN

    Monash University's Sarah Joseph outlines Australia's contest with France and Spain for a spot on the UN's Human Rights Council.

  5. Oscars 2017: In photos

    Here's what Hollywood's best and brightest wore on the red carpet at this year's Academy Awards.

  6. Vanishing WWII naval ships

    Sunken World War II warships have been disappearing in Indonesia and there has been little action taken to ensure their protection.

  7. Khmer Rouge case dropped

    Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal drops its case against a suspect accused of killing thousands of people at slave labour camps.

  8. A journey to Russia's past

    From the outside it appears Moscow has undergone a dramatic transformation in the past decade, but not everything is better.

  9. Scientists take on Trump

    Scientists in the US are coming together to fight back against Trump's apparent attack on their profession.

  10. Applying for a Russian visa

    It took four months and 300 emails to get two ABC correspondents out the door to Moscow.

  11. Trump's week in review

    The ABC’s US bureau chief has recapped the week that was as President Trump marks his second month in the job.

  12. Yemen's humanitarian crisis

    The UN World Food Program says millions of people in Yemen, north Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan are at risk of dying from starvation.

Asia Pacific

  1. Homemade bomb detonated in West Java

    Police in Bandung — the capital of West Java in Indonesia — say the situation is now under control after a homemade bomb was detonated by two terrorism suspects near a local school this morning.

    No-one was injured in the explosion of the device, which police described as a pressure cooker filled with nails.

  1. Bali drugs trial

    An Australian man allegedly caught with hashish in Bali says he did not realise it was such a big criminal offence.

  2. Kim Jong-nam murder

    The dose of nerve agent given to Kim Jong-un's exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes.

  3. Asylum-seeker killer escapes

    One of the men found guilty of murdering asylum seeker Reza Barati has escaped from jail.

  4. Indonesia military ties

    Indonesia and Australia will fully restore military ties in the wake of talks between the two nations' leaders.

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

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