Former US president George HW Bush was admitted to hospital the day after his wife's funeral, where attendees included George W Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and current First Lady Melania Trump.

Alice Springs-based journalist Stephen Schubert is used to battling heat exhaustion and dehydration but it was hypothermia and frostbite he faced on assignment in Norway to report on the Doomsday Vault.

Mike Pompeo's path to Secretary of State is clear now he has narrowly avoided a historic rebuke by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But that's just the start: he'll inherit a department with plunging morale, writes Charles Edel.

Malaysian police say they are still hunting "two light-skinned suspects who are European or Middle Eastern" after a the assassination of a Hamas engineer suspected to have been working on weaponised drones.

Indonesian police say they have worked with the AFP to unravel a people-smuggling network that was aimed at bringing in fake Rohingya refugees to Australia.