Prime Minister John Key is due to to meet the President of the United States at the White House next month - but certain things will NOT be on the agenda.

Polls show gamble on Australians accepting pain has failed badly.

In an uncharacteristic step by the North Korean government, officials made a public apology after a building collapse in Pyongyang reportedly killed hundreds of people.

Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan punched a man in a supermarket.

A British-born man suspected of masterminding Boko Haram bomb attacks in Nigeria that left 100 people dead became radicalised during his years at a Welsh university.

After fighting to save its single currency, the European Union faces a test of political legitimacy when voters in its 28 member states elect a new European Parliament.

Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies have won India's general election by the biggest margin in 30 years.

Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi made a triumphant entrance in New Delhi yesterday, promising to improve the lives of all Indians.

John Key needs to front up about the involvement of the GCSB in the National Security Agency's international spies' club, says the internet lobby group.

The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against rebel-held areas is resulting in genetically malformed babies, according to doctors.

Is this how NOT to sell a Budget? Australia's Treasurer Joe Hockey was snapped puffing on a cigar, and later dancing in his office before selling A$80b in cuts.

Whether by design or merry happenstance, Finance Minister Bill English will stand to present his maiden surplus today.

The photograph of the two men was nothing less than remarkable.

New documents released by Edward Snowden show New Zealand's GCSB closely enmeshed with some of the most controversial parts of the United States' spying apparatus.

Right-wing French politicians were accused of racism yesterday after they attacked a black minister who failed to sing the national anthem at a public ceremony.

Tonight is make-or-break night for Prime Minister Tony Abbott as his Government reveals its first Budget to a nation that is expecting the worst.

There's a scary echo in Prime Minister Tony Abbott's ear. As he weathers a storm of anger and protest before Tuesday's Budget - much of it within his own political bloc - he can hear his old familiar mantras repeating.

An extremely rare female deep-water megamouth shark has been caught off the coast of Shizuoka in Japan, in what is believed to be only the 58th known sighting of the animal on record.

More than 170 sharks have been caught and 50 destroyed as part of Australia's controversial culling policy, government figures have revealed.

Monica Lewinsky has broken nearly a decade of silence to say she was "troubled" by Hillary Clinton's impulse to "blame the woman".

President Barack Obama poked fun at the press, his political rivals and his own healthcare policy, as he spoke at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

Ukraine's Government said yesterday that the country was now at war with pro-Russia insurgents.

Nicholas Ngonyama gazes across the valley to a palatial cluster of buildings whose thatched roofs glow in the autumn sunshine.