Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.

As Russia’s propaganda machine jolts back to life, flooding the Western world with curated hoo-hah, a popular notion in Russia is that these days everything is PR - the same cynical idea can be described as a symptom of the post-Great Recession West.

"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," said Clinton on Tuesday.

Demonstrators calling for a military coup occupied Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday, as anti-austerity protests continue in Rio.

Panic erupted in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday as Boko Haram fighters poured into two strategic towns in pre-dawn strikes that escalated into battles with Nigerian army troops.

It is not just the clinical detail of the brutality of American agents that makes the US Senate report on the CIA's torture shocking, it is how chaotic and in the end, pointless, the entire program proved to be.

The central promise of the Trump administration has failed and the central premise of the administration has been discredited.

It was a sinister moment in a campaign already replete with ugliness. And it put the spotlight back on Donald Trump.

After an election riven with religious tension, Pence struck an odd note by comparing Indonesia to the US.

On the 10th anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 226,000 people in 13 countries LINDSAY MURDOCH visits Khao Lak, the worst hit beach in Thailand.

The body of an Iraq War veteran suspected of fatally shooting and stabbing six family members in Pennsylvania was discovered on Tuesday following a two-day manhunt, a district attorney said.

China's President Xi Jinping has visited a drizzly Macau for the 15th anniversary of the gambling hub's return to Chinese rule, with onlookers barred from using umbrellas – the emblem of democracy protests in nearby Hong Kong.

Defeating IS and retaining influence in the Middle East is more important to Russia than in propping up dictator, analysts say.

A UK theatre has been fined for safety breaches a week after it was revealed an Australian woman received a $7m payout after being paralysed in a fall.

South Korean and Japanese jets have joined exercises with two US B-1B bombers above and near the Korean Peninsula.

Asher Keddie, Germaine Greer and Alan Jones are among those who have thrown their support behind two Australians facing the death penalty in Indonesia, in a powerful star-filled video calling for mercy.

Ali Elamine's behaviour in negotiations over his half-Australian children led one person to describe him as "pretty face, ugly heart".

German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago.

It was a DC lawyer's dream come true, a Hollywood premiere for a movie based on the novel he wrote in his spare time. But when The Revenant, the highly anticipated new film adapted from Michael Punke's book, had its big opening in L.A. - an evening featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Oscar-wi...

Istanbul's international airport has reopened with Turkish Airlines resuming flights on Saturday following a failed coup attempt.