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.

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.

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.

Bali Nine member Michael Czugaj is among 66 prisoners who have been transferred to a remote jail in East Java after prison authorities said they caught him with traces of the drug ice in Kerobokan jail.

Europe's most wanted fugitive Salah Abdeslam has been extradited to France from Belgium to face questioning over last November's attacks in Paris.