The daughter of the British hostage murdered by Isis militants has spoken out against the terrorist organisation that has ravaged Iraq and Syria, saying it needs to be eradicated.

Britain could join air strikes in Iraq by the weekend after Prime Minister David Cameron set the country on the path to war.

Victoria's Islamic community has received threats less than 24 hours after a Muslim youth stabbed two police officers and was shot dead.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was today trying to placate Conservative MPs who are threatening to scupper further devolution for Scotland unless he curbs the voting rights of Scottish MPs at Westminster.

Jacqui Lambie, the straight-talking, combative Tasmanian, is shaking up federal politics and injecting a breath of the real world into Canberra.

Labour has launched a ferocious fightback against Tory (Conservative) attempts to link the timetable for Scottish devolution to far-reaching constitutional reform in England, insisting that....

Three people were arrested after pro-independence and union supporters clashed in Scotland.

Fiji authorities have rejected claims of a corrupt election as the Fiji First Party of coup leader Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama closed in on a landslide victory.

Scotland has said No to independence and preserved its 307-year-old union with England after a historic referendum which gripped voters and smashed electoral records.

Australians woke today with a sobering realisation of how close we came to one or more of our own, on our soil, being abducted, tortured and beheaded.

New Zealand-based Scots were last night hoping English political leaders would honour promises to treat their homeland better if it stayed British.

David Cameron has announced that he will fast-track proposals to prevent Scottish MPs voting on English-only issues in the wake of the independence referendum.

Voreqe Frank Bainimarama is Fiji's elected prime minister and his Fiji First Party will form the new government.

The world is waiting as Scotland takes to the polls this week in a referendum to decide whether Scotland should remain part of the United Kingdom, or become independent.

Scuffles broke out and insults were hurled yesterday as the battle for Scotland's future descended into its most acrimonious day of political fighting.

Auckland-based Scottish "tribal" musicians hoping to drum in an independent homeland tomorrow claim highland games organisers are shunning them for being too rabble-rousing.

Voreqe Frank Bainimarama, the man who seized power to become prime minister of Fiji in a 2006 military coup, could be retaining his position.

You see it in place names like St Kilda and Blairgowrie. Or in the sometimes miserable weather.

Across Scotland, dinner table talk is getting heated as families argue over how to vote in Scotland's independence referendum.