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Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump's relationship got off to a faltering start earlier this year with a testy phone call which made headlines around the world. Now the two men will get a chance to press reset, with a meeting set up on a WWII aircraft carrier in New York next week.
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Family First will be merged with Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives party but newly elected senator Lucy Gichuhi will not be part of the merged party, the ABC understands.
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A US submarine docks in South Korea and navy ships prepare for exercises with Japan and South Korea, as Pyongyang performs a large-scale artillery drill to mark the anniversary of the founding of its military.
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Donald Trump's daughter elicits groans and hisses from an audience in Berlin while defending her father's attitude towards women, but brushes it aside as "politics" during her first overseas trip as a White House adviser.
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Undocumented immigrants make up as much as 70 per cent of the US' agricultural workforce, but as Donald Trump nears 100 days in office, workers fear they will be deported and forced to leave their families behind.
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A former Perth student on trial for allegedly murdering his father, mother and brother with an axe returns under escort to the scene of the killings in South Africa.
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An increasing demand for skin-whitening products in Australia has sparked concern among doctors, who say the products can have potentially dangerous side-effects and raise a broader discussion about identity.
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Turnbull Government backbencher Stuart Robert's testimony to Queensland's crime watchdog is questioned by a Gold Coast councillor.
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Burglars may be able to hack into a home's smart electricity meter and gain information about the occupants' movements, simply by monitoring when you last opened your fridge, or even access your alarm, a leading cyber-security expert warns.
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Eleven people are rescued, including some suffering from hypothermia, after their fishing charter boat overturns in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane.
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A man doused his girlfriend with flammable liquid and set it alight because of an argument, Tasmanian police say.
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Brazilian police arrest eight people suspected of killing a police officer and blowing up a building while robbing a security company of millions of dollars in a volatile border town in Paraguay.
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Nick McKim will visit Manus Island and speak to PNG police about their account of a detention centre shooting on Good Friday.
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Financial analysts believe the Nine Network should consider walking away from broadcast contract negotiations with Cricket Australia.
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Homicide detectives investigate the deaths of a husband and wife at a house in Wangaratta, in Victoria's north-east.
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Opinion is divided on whether increased supply will help make housing more affordable or just fuel an already overheated housing market.
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Sanctions imposed by the US on Damascus in response to a deadly chemical attack on civilians are a "bankrupt decision" that will harm Syrian people in need, the country's Deputy Foreign Minister says.
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The US State Department removes a promotional blog post about President Donald Trump's Florida resort — which described the "114-room mansion" as an "ornate jazz-age house" — after a storm of ethics criticism.
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A researcher is scouring southern forests and northern pastures of Western Australia, to document the most varied collections of carnivorous plants in the world.
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Americans who fought in defence of Darwin are among those recognised at the city's dawn service, as the local commander says Australians can use the "failure of the Gallipoli campaign to salvage some kind of patriotic rallying point."
