Minister says the TPP is a "work in progress" and concedes Australia and India are doing a "stocktake" on a trade deal due to have been wrapped up by the end of 2015.

We can see the plumes of smoke from 30 kilometres away. This is the oil wealth of the Iraqi people going up in flames.

A Miami defence lawyer's pants burst into flames in court just as he began his closing arguments in front of a jury.

Even as Russia insists RT is just another global network, many Western democracies regard RT as a covert disinformation network.

Elections are being held in five Indian states but everyone knows that it is Uttar Pradesh that really counts.

Marines from an amphibious task force have left their ships in the Middle East and deployed to Syria, establishing an outpost.

Boris Johnson tweets what Julie Bishop won't say.

New York: Women protested around the world on Wednesday for equal rights and in the United States against President Donald Trump, with many Americans skipping work or boycotting stores to demand economic fairness on International Women's Day.

A rock structure in the form of an arch which had featured in countless Malta tourism brochures has collapsed.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said the group will work with technology companies to close gaps identified in thousands of Central Intelligence Agency documents it published this week as well as in additional material it has yet to disclose.

US and Iraqi officials believe the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with diehard followers to fight the battle of Mosul, and is now hiding out in the desert, focusing mainly on his own survival.

Air strikes killed 23 civilians, including eight children, on Thursday in countryside around the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, a war monitoring group said.

Migrants are making risky journeys in the cold as they flee from the US to Canada in increasing numbers to escape a crackdown on undocumented immigrants by the Trump administration.

Former war correspondent David Fox expressed his relief and gratitude to a Balinese court for recognising the "circumstances of my peculiar case" after he was sentenced to just seven months' jail for possessing hashish.

Cairo: A team of German archaeologists have discovered 66 statues of the lion-headed goddess of war, Sekhmet, in an excavation of a temple near the Egyptian city of Luxor.

Adams said nationalists must now win over unionists to the idea of a unified Ireland two decades after their sectarian conflict came to an end.

Amid accusations that it is spreading misinformation and acting as Russia's agent, WikiLeaks made an offer of help to tech giants, but they were less than impressed.

Voters and fellow Republicans are giving Donald Trump a taste of his own medicine.

ndonesian politicians with key roles in President Joko Widodo's governing coalition have been caught up in a corruption scandal

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been impeached, with the Constitutional Court upholding a parliamentary motion to dismiss her from office .

A timeline of main developments in the scandal and events in her life and political career.

Relatives of children who died at a home for unmarried mothers want to know if they are buried in a mass grave.

The new document, yet to be approved, would accept territories occupied by Israel in 1967 as the basis for a state but would withhold recognition.

Several people have been injured in an axe attack at Dusseldorf train station.

Afghans who worked for the US military and government are being told that they cannot apply for special visas to the United States, even though Afghanistan is not among the countries listed in President Donald Trump's new travel ban, according to advocates for Afghan refugees.taf