Australian teenage prodigy Ryan Ruffels takes advantage of a sponsor's invite to the Arnold Palmer Invitational to shoot a first-round 69 and be two shots off the lead, while Jason Day also makes a bright start in Orlando.

The discovery of an inscription on an ancient statue pulled from the mud of a Cairo slum reveals the colossus does not depict revered Pharaoh Ramses II as first thought, and is more likely of a lesser-known Egyptian ruler, the country's antiquities minister says.

Police shoot dead a runaway dog on the tarmac of New Zealand's Auckland Airport because it was delaying planes taking off.

Dramatic footage shows a woman struggling free from a mudslide in Peru's capital Lima, as a new round of unusually heavy rain kills at least a dozen people and threatens flooding.

US President Donald Trump's budget proposal will boost defence spending by $US54 billion, while slashing the Environmental Protection Agency's funding by 31 per cent and cutting other programs including Meals on Wheels.