FIFA has dismissed complaints made by whistleblowers, including an Australian, who were interviewed about the 2018 and 2020 World Cup bids.

US President Barack Obama has revealed his experiences of racism as protesters condemn the killings of unarmed black men by police.

The Tongan church in Mangere where Jonah Lomu lived as a child will hold a public service to remember him.

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. 

The warning came as the Russian foreign ministry said relations with the US were the "most difficult period since the Cold War."

North Korean despot Kim Jong-un has been invited to next year visit Moscow on the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Russian state television is back on a war footing as a prime-time news program warns that the US wants to provoke a conflict.

He was, in many ways, a perfect spy - a man so important to Cuba's intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the CIA paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades.

A Philippine town mayor says more than 30 police commandos have been killed in a clash with Muslim rebels while hunting a top terror suspect in the south.

When the country's drug crackdown hit his supply and he found himself smoking what turned out to be candy, addict Ramson Donado decided to surrender.