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

When the PM said he was prepared to wait for the right trade deal with Britain rather than a rushed one, he wasn’t bluffing. 

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.

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.

Singaporean voters may accept change after all three of the island nation's prime ministers have had Chinese roots.

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.

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.

At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren, were killed when a speeding bus fell into a canal in southern India on Saturday, an official and media reports said.

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

The twice-weekly service will begin as soon as a trans-Tasman bubble is established, the airline says.