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.

Three men carrying Australian passports were arrested at a Bolivian international airport last week waiting to board a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, accused of carrying explosives.

At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest in Egypt as the country marks the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials say.

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.

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.

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The US economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations that around 1 million jobs would be created.

"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.

Journalists from the BBC walked out of the event, saying it was clear he appeared under duress.

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

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.

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

The draft resolution called for an immediate and permanent end to fighting, as a humanitarian crisis grips the enclave that is home to more than 2 million people.

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

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

No Man's Land is an ungoverned strip of riverbank between Thailand and Myanmar, where a unique market thrives, selling everything from vapes to bootleg alcohol.

Kyiv's surprise drone attack last weekend resulted in billions of dollars damage to Russia's military aircraft.

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.