The 2015 UK general election is almost upon us and it's shaping up as one of the most interesting and unpredictable contests in decades.

Britain will struggle to throw off its growing reputation as a bit player in foreign affairs and defence after tonight's elections, which are likely to result in a weak Government that will be....

Tony Abbott is all for cuts, but not - it seems - when it comes to the gardening at his official Sydney residence.

The tiny Pacific country of Nauru has blocked access to Facebook in a move criticised as a "dictatorial" attempt to stifle dissent.

Despite claims that another Tory-led Administration offers security over chaos, senior party sources have suggested the governing of the country will in effect be on pause.

New Zealand should have a Kiwi as head of state, Labour leader Andrew Little said, just hours after the new royal princess was born.

The Saudi Arabian visit was a return to the old Key model of jet setting, glad-handing and grandstanding, which we can now see has never worked, writes Paul Little.

Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, refused an invitation to visit Moscow to mark the Soviet Union's victory in World War II because Russia refused to meet Pyongyang's demands for special treatment for the young dictator.

The British tabloid yesterday morning, drunk on metaphor juice, splashed with the coverline, "It's a Tory!"

New Zealand will not lodge another protest against the planned execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.

Just two weeks old, the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton continues to be buffeted by questions about foreign donations to the family's namesake charitable foundation

Every country should play a part in confronting extremism, Prime Minister John Key said at a peace conference in Istanbul today.

Prime Minister John Key reaffirmed New Zealand's role in fighting terror threats in the Middle East at the International Peace Summit in Istanbul overnight.

Embassies representing prisoners on death row with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have been summoned to a meeting.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says he is going to assume until proved otherwise that the Obama Administration would not have submitted the bill unless it had the numbers to pass it, writes Jane Kelsey. That is disingenuous.

The men allegedly planning to attack police and bystanders in Melbourne on Anzac Day have been linked to Isis' most senior Australian fighter.

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has given a taste of her policy ideas as she started her campaign in Iowa last week.

Ask anyone who has run for office while female and they'll tell you that even at the presidential level, Hillary Clinton is in once again for a different kind of scrutiny.

The choice of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki - one of Australia's best known and most highly respected science broadcasters - to front the ad campaign is backfiring on the Government.

I am in England on the Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference with 100 senior leaders from 22 countries around the Commonwealth.

The Syrian Government has been accused of again using chemical weapons against civilians as fighting intensifies with fresh rebel attacks in the north of the country.

A former British diplomat has accused Hillary Clinton of contributing to Iraq's disastrous meltdown during her four years as Barack Obama's foreign policy chief.

David Cameron was stumped when a 10-year-old girl asked him the toughest question of the election campaign so far.

Hillary Clinton hits the road in a humble van to her first campaign appearance since declaring on she is joining the 2016 race for president.

Hillary Clinton would be a good political partner for NZ if she became the US president, Prime Minister John Key says.

President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro symbolically ended more than a half-century of official estrangement between the countries yesterday in a historic-face-to-face meeting.

Hillary Clinton would make a fine US president, Barack Obama said on the eve of the expected launch of her candidacy for the Democratic Party's nod in 2016.

A large protest opposing the closure of remote indigenous communities in Western Australia yesterday shut down streets in central Melbourne.