Despite all the talk of action against Vladimir Putin, Exxon Mobil, the largest US energy company is undeterred, starting work on $700m oil well in the Arctic.

According to the last national head-count, 130,000 people born in Scotland now live in Australia. I'm one of them, writes Billy Adams.

Up to 150,000 desperate refugees were still isolated on a barren stretch of mountain in Iraq, surrounded by Islamic extremists despite a major international intervention.

The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.

The days of the military strongman are on the wane around the world - few people would be sad about that.

Fiji's interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is set to face protests during his visit to New Zealand this weekend to campaign for the upcoming elections.

Vladimir Putin has ordered bans on food imports from countries that have issued sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine.

Google is facing criticism for continuing to allow Android mobile users to download a game called "Bomb Gaza".

Hundreds of people living in the Torres Strait face the prospect of having to leave their homes in the coming decades as rising seas engulf their low-lying islands.

The entrance is a deep vertical shaft, usually hidden in a house. It drops down a dozen metres or so before reaching a horizontal passage.

The Indian Government is hiring men to pose as menacing langur monkeys to scare off the hundreds of macaques terrorising MPs and staff around its buildings.

Donetsk is Tony Abbott's "Bali moment".

Russia's economy faces a financial stranglehold and President Vladimir Putin's inner circle will be hit with asset freezes and travel bans.

Even while "the monstrous anger of the guns" was hauling millions to their death, the blame game was already well under way.

Banking group HSBC sees economic growth picking up in China and the momentum continuing into next year.

Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in Europe amid a growing chorus of criticism at Israel's assault on Gaza.

Vladimir Putin is facing a multimillion-dollar legal action for his alleged role in the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine.

While the 1962 Cuban missile crisis is widely regarded as the nearest the world has come to nuclear war, historians and military analysts believe we were even closer to the brink in late 1983.

Barack Obama has openly questioned why Hillary Clinton would want to go through the "undignifying process" of running for the White House in 2016.