Personal information of hundreds of Australian Government employees have been exposed by the hackers of the Ashley Madison dating service.

United States presidential candidate Deez Nuts has polled 9 per cent.

Christine Forster had an "extremely emotional" week after Mr Abbott's coalition government blocked any chance of same-sex weddings.

Having made their money in a one-party state, Chinese companies are facing culture shock as they deal with democracies.

Lord Prescott has insisted that he could not have groped the wife of a fellow ex-MPs because she was "built like a bloody barn door" and "the f**cking house" would have fallen down if he had.

Al-Qaeda has released a message, purportedly from Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, calling for attacks on London and other western cities.

No one expects 'The Donald' to be President, but his rivals might be better to go for him now before he spoils his party's chances.

If anything's constant in American political life, it's the stable two-party system. Yet, at times of extreme political flux, this society has broken up into four parties.

At a workshop on a summer day in Riyadh, prospective candidates in local elections are limbering up. One wants to help kids, one to improve living conditions in the Saudi capital, another to become a political role model.

American voters' craving for authenticity in political leaders is aiding hopefuls such as Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders.

Why is Donald Trump holding a commanding poll lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination? Paul Thomas has some possible answers.

Donald Trump has become the target of a Twitter campaign by women angry at his sexist remarks after the Republican candidate's debate last week.

The celebrity billionaire struggles to turn his political fling into a durable campaign.

The eulogies have been delivered, the set disassembled and Jon Stewart's parting "bullshit-is-everywhere" monologue is fading.

How long can the Republicans treat Donald Trump as a sideshow before they and the party they seek to lead suffer the political effects of his excesses?

"You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her - wherever," Trump said after the debate, speaking on CNN.

Donald Trump was not terribly happy with Megyn Kelly's questions during the very first campaign debate, Trump's Twitter account reaffirmed this.

Police have named former British PM Sir Edward Heath as a suspected paedophile in the ongoing investigation into allegations of historic child abuse.

The age of entitlement is over for Lady Bronwyn. No more helicopter trips on the public purse, writes Billy Adams. Public resignations have rarely been so long coming.

the mess the Republicans are making of their challenge has been illustrated yet again by Donald Trump's bumptious hijacking of the British Open women's golf championship.

We were liquored up and keen to dance and they saw us straight away. An unattached white male? Boom.

Unlike Greece, there was never much of a boom. There has only been a bust.

John Howard famously couldn't bring himself to apologise to the stolen generations. This week Bronwyn Bishop finally succumbed over taking taxpayers for an expensive (helicopter) ride.

After decades of chanting "Death to America", Iran's rulers have finally embraced a slogan that celebrates life and procreation.

Britain was accused yesterday of playing into the hands of China after it refused the political dissident Ai Weiwei a six-month business visa and claimed he lied on his application form.

From the outside, the Security Council looks like a shed out the back of the United Nations.

What happens when the Secretary General's term ends next year is only faintly more transparent than appointing a new Pope, writes Audrey Young.

Some people, such as Britain's Prime Minister, will be glad that Lord Sewel has quit the House of Lords after apparently being caught in a sex and drugs sting.

Lord Sewel has resigned as a peer in the House of Lords after footage emerged of him allegedly taking cocaine with two prostitutes.