Donald Trump has blamed the leaks from his White House on former president Barack Obama. Speaking to the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, Mr Trump said he believed Mr Obama was behind some of the leaks from within his administration and the ...

Five people are dead and the focus is turning to the final moments of a brief and deadly flighpath in the Victorian suburb of Essendon this morning. What we know so far is that after taking off shortly after 9am on Tuesday, the five-person Beechcraft ...

Five people are dead and the focus is turning to the final moments of a brief and deadly flighpath in the Victorian suburb of Essendon this morning. What we know so far is that after taking off shortly after 9am on Tuesday, the five-person Beechcraft ...

WASHINGTON (AP) " The leaks are real. But the news about them is fake. The White House is a fine-tuned machine. Russia is a ruse. For its stunning moments and memorable one-liners, Donald Trump's first solo news conference as president has no rivals ...

Game of Thrones has nothing on Kim Jong-Un. His wife is kept hidden. He executed his uncle by anti-aircraft gun. How long can the North Korean despot keep the lid on 25 million impoverished people? For Jong-Un, it's a matter of survival. He must kill ...

Game of Thrones has nothing on Kim Jong-Un. He poisoned his brother. His wife is kept hidden. He executed his uncle by anti-aircraft gun. How long can the North Korean despot keep the lid on 25 million impoverished people? For Jong-Un, it's a matter of ...

CAIRO (AP) Rival Libyan lawmakers have held talks brokered by a United Nations envoy, in the first attempt to bridge the gap between warring groups that left the North African nation torn between two governments and parliaments. In a press conference held ...

Push for simultaneous changes to English law prompts vow from Brown that 'promises will be upheld'. British Prime Minister David Cameron. Photo / AP. Labour has launched a ferocious fightback against Tory (Conservative) attempts to link the timetable for ...

Youths who used cannabis daily before age 17 showed the worst effects in a new study. Photo / 123RF. Teen cannabis smokers are 60 per cent more likely to drop out of high school than their non-smoking peers, and are more likely to use other drugs and ...

HOUSTON (AP) The FBI says a U.S. air marshal was attacked with a syringe at a Nigerian airport. FBI spokesman Christos Sinos said Tuesday that preliminary tests show the syringe did not contain any deadly pathogens. It's not known what was in the ...

Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide 'lockdown' will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) claimed today. The government plans to order ...

The video showing the killing of Steven Sotloff is a mirror image of that two weeks ago carrying the last words of his colleague James Foley. Wearing an orange jumpsuit, meant to remind us of the inmates at Guantanamo Bay, Sotloff kneels as he reads out a ...

DALLAS (AP) Hackers attacked Sony's PlayStation Network and disrupted the travel plans of a top company executive by going on Twitter to suggest that there was a bomb on his American Airlines plane. Sony Corp. says American cut short the executive's ...

The United States' most senior law enforcement official sat down with college kids, community leaders and angry residents in a suburb shaken by more than a week of racially charged protests. Attorney General Eric Holder was in Ferguson, Missouri, ...

The extremists of the Islamic State group have turned their social media into a theatre of horror, broadcasting a stomach-turning stream of battles, bombings and beheadings to a global audience. The strategy is aimed at terrorising opponents at home and ...

Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey (left) and Besiktas' Veli Kavlak fight for the ball during their Istanbul clash. Picture / AP. Arsenal held on with 10 men to draw 0-0 at Besiktas in the Champions League playoff round yesterday, while Bayer Leverkusen are better placed ...

BAGHDAD (AP) A local official and a resident say clashes have broken out between Iraqi security forces and militants on the outskirts of Tikrit. They say the clashes began early Tuesday on the southwestern outskirts of the militant-held city of Tikrit, located ...

Pope Francis meets the media during an airborne press conference on his journey back to Rome from Seoul. Photo / AP. The Pope has publicly broached the prospect of his own death for the first time, giving himself "two or three years" but not ruling out ...

In a whirlwind five-day trip to South Korea, Pope Francis beatified 124 martyrs, kissed almost as many babies and rallied thousands of Asian youth. It might be his use of English, though, that will define his first trip to Asia. The Argentinian pope not only gave ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Sri Lanka got off to a solid but cautious start in the second test against Pakistan, moving to 69-0 at lunch on the opening day Thursday. Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and elected to bat on a Sinhalese Sports Club ...