Australia's strict merit based immigration policies received a thumbs up from from US President Donald Trump.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's epic screw-up at the Oscars could carry a high cost if jurors arrive at a malpractice trial next week suspecting the global accounting firm is error-prone.

US President Donald Trump has launched extraordinary charges at former president Barack Obama, accusing him of "wire tapping" Trump Tower during the US Elections.

A photo of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton glancing at a newspaper headline about US Vice President Mike Pence using private email has gone viral on social media.

Poor countries have contributed the least to human-induced climate change but are already being affected more than richer ones.

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One of Indonesia's top trade officials has questioned whether "artificial" trade barriers are preventing Australia importing more palm oil, pulp and paper and wood products as the two countries negotiate a free trade deal to be concluded this year.

​Some problems are hard to solve. President Donald Trump's assertion that President Barack Obama was tapping his phones prior to the election is not one of them.

Malaysia has ordered North Korea's ambassador in Kuala Lumpur to leave the country by 6pm on Monday in an escalating diplomatic row over the nerve agent killing of Kim-jong-nam.

Russia has become the slow burn of President Donald Trump's administration. It is the issue that he and his team cannot get beyond.

Sinn Fein, the main Catholic nationalist party in Northern Ireland, won its greatest number of legislative seats ever after a snap election this weekend, creating a virtual tie with its Protestant rivals and throwing nearly two decades of peaceful power sharing into turmoil.

The White House doubled down Sunday on Donald Trump's contention that President Barack Obama tapped the then-candidate's phones during the 2016 election campaign, calling for Congress to probe potential executive-branch abuses of power.

Germany accused of behaving as in Nazi times in cancelling political meetings of resident Turks that were due to be addressed by Turkish officials.

Donald Trump's early-morning Twitter blitzkrieg accusing Barack Obama of a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap phones at Trump Tower raises very legitimate questions about his fitness to be the president of the US.

An Afghan family of five that had received approval to move to the United States based on the father's work for the US government has been detained for more than two days after flying into Los Angeles International Airport, a legal advocacy group said in court documents filed Saturday.

Britain's Chancellor Philip Hammond said he would not use better news on the country's big budget deficit to spend heavily because he needs to keep "reserves in the tank" for the impending divorce from the European Union.

Holding babies on their hips and all the possessions they could carry, thousands of tired and hungry residents streamed out of Mosul on Saturday as the Iraqi army pushed deeper into the Islamic State-held side of the city.

​US-backed Iraqi forces launched on Sunday a new push toward the Islamic State-held old city centre of Mosul, on the western bank of the Tigris river, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

There are enough reasons to worry about Donald Trump having his finger on the button. Just imagine the day when Kim Jong-un does, too.

Apple has temporarily stopped buying cobalt mined by hand in Congo, while it continues to deal with problems relating to child labour and harsh work conditions.