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  1. Australian takes custody of child from American convicted of murdering own mother in Bali

    An American woman serving time in Kerobokan prison for killing her own mother has been forced to give over custody of her daughter under an Indonesian law mandating children be cared for outside of prison once they turn two years old.

  2. Senior Australian sailors implicated in 'Fat Leonard' sex scandal

    Two members of the Royal Australian Navy are being investigated over a huge US Navy bribery scandal involving prostitution, bribery, wild parties and a Malaysian businessman known as 'Fat Leonard'.

  3. Australia welcomes Annan's calls for independent investigation in Myanmar

    Australia welcomes calls from former UN boss Kofi Annan to independently investigate allegations of murder and rape in Myanmar's Rakhine State.

  4. Trump's budget boosts military, slashes environment, community programs

    US President Donald Trump's budget proposal will boost defence spending by $US54 billion, while slashing the Environmental Protection Agency's funding by 31 per cent and cutting other programs including Meals on Wheels.

  5. South Sudan buying arms with oil money while millions face starvation: confidential UN report

    Nearly half the population of South Sudan face food shortages yet the government is spending half at least half its budget on weapons, a confidential United Nations report alleges.

  6. 'You have tiny hands': McDonald's blames hacking for anti-Trump tweet

    Fast-food chain McDonald's claims its Twitter account was hacked after its corporate account posted a derogatory tweet about US President Donald Trump.

  7. Babies starving to death as Yemen calls for aid

    New evidence of babies starving to death in Yemen emerges as the United Nations and aid agencies issue urgent calls for increased aid deliveries to feed 7 million people at risk of famine.

  8. French high school student shoots principal, two others: police

    An armed 17-year-old is arrested after shooting a principal and two others at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse, police say.

  9. Floods, mudslides kill dozens in Peru after unusually heavy rainfalls

    Dramatic footage shows a woman struggling free from a mudslide in Peru's capital Lima, as a new round of unusually heavy rain kills at least a dozen people and threatens flooding.

  10. TV crew, tourists, scientist injured in Mount Etna explosion

    A BBC television crew narrowly escapes serious injury, capturing dramatic video of an eruption on Italy's Mount Etna volcano.

  11. Dog shot dead by police after it delayed flights at Auckland Airport

    Police shoot dead a runaway dog on the tarmac of New Zealand's Auckland Airport because it was delaying planes taking off.

  12. Inscription reveals identity of colossus unearthed in Cairo slum

    The discovery of an inscription on an ancient statue pulled from the mud of a Cairo slum reveals the colossus does not depict revered Pharaoh Ramses II as first thought, and is more likely of a lesser-known Egyptian ruler, the country's antiquities minister says.

Features

  1. Dutch deja vu for France?

    Voters in the Netherlands may have turned their back on the anti-Islamic, populist candidate Geert Wilders, but do not assume this means France will do the same.

  2. The hard sell

    Donald Trump has been out revving up the faithful again and plans to hold a rally every fortnight now but away from the bluster the president is butting heads with everyone from Breitbart News to Snoop Dogg.

  3. Indyref 2.0

    Scotland could get another chance to vote on independence from the UK — but this time Brexit has raised the stakes even higher, Barbara Miller writes.

  4. Baldwin on Trump

    Alec Baldwin has reached new levels of fame for his Donald Trump impersonation, and says the key is finding the insecurity behind the facade.

  5. Dutch opt for tolerance

    He may have led in the polls, but on election day in The Netherlands, anti-Islam, anti-EU candidate Geert Wilders fell well short, writes Steve Cannane.

  6. Photos from Otherworlds

    Michael Benson painstakingly creates a series of photographs showing off our solar system's far-flung spectacles.

  7. The news, American style

    The build up to the reveal of Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns was breathless, but all we got was a reminder of the difference between US and Australian media, writes Connor Duffy.

  8. Unpredictable regime

    North Korea's launch of ballistic missiles has unnerved the US, and it's decided enough is enough, writes Philip Williams.

  9. Birth in Afghanistan

    For women in Afghanistan, having a baby can be deadly — with about one in 50 women dying as a result of pregnancy or childbirth.

  10. New independence push

    After shadow-boxing for months about the impact of Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon demands a new Scottish referendum.

  11. Vietnam's forgotten cinema

    Sheila Pham travels from the suburbs of Melbourne to the south of Vietnam in search of the lost cinema of Tan Hiep.

  12. 'Fake news' in Asia

    How is "fake news" being used and abused in the Southeast Asia region?

  13. Mahmoud's journey

    In the United States, Mahmoud Hallak is waiting anxiously to hear if he will get his green card.

Asia Pacific

  1. Prized coral reef damaged by ship

    British company Noble Caledonia incurs the wrath of the Indonesian Government after its ship MV Caledonian Sky hit a prized coral reef causing irreparable damage.

    The 4,200-gross-ton ship, with 79 crew and 102 passengers on board, rammed into the reef in the waters of Radja Ampat.

  1. China 'optimistic' on US relations

    China's Premier Li Keqiang reject the notion that the Asia-Pacific needs to make a choice between China and the US.

  2. Park Geun-hye 'abandons' dogs

    An animal rights group accuses the impeached South Korean president of animal abandonment after she leaves her dogs at the presidential palace.

  3. Manus detention centre

    PNG Chief Justice finds the Manus Island detention centre has been closed, despite the fact that roughly 860 men remain in it.

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