Australian voters appear to be finally warming to the Government they elected in September, but not because they like Tony Abbott any better, according to an opinion poll published yesterday.

Australia's faltering relations with Indonesia have been dealt another blow by secret documents showing the nation's electronic spy agency passed on to the United States confidential legal communications.

Italy's head of state, President Giorgio Napolitano, has set in train his third prime ministerial appointment in less than three years.

Let's play President. I'll be the public. You can be Bammy.

Belgian MPs are to press ahead with a child euthanasia law that critics say challenges the very basis of civilised society.

The fate of dozens of men detained by the Syrian security forces as they left the besieged city of Homs is continuing to cause international concern.

Tony Abbott, on a matter that transcends conventional politics, becomes an interesting politician.

New papers reveal Hillary Clinton believed her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky was merely a' lapse', dismissing the White House intern as a 'narcissistic loony toon'.

Prime Minister John Key has called Labour leader David Cunliffe an "idiot" over his comments about Kiwis' entitlements in Australia.

Francois Hollande heads to Washington today hoping that a touch of Yankee glitz will fix a presidential image badly damaged at home by his handling of France's economy.

Labor has survived in former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Brisbane seat of Griffith with the help of Greens' preferences.

An embarrassing phone call in which a top US diplomat cursed the European Union's response to the Ukraine crisis.

The Pakistan Government met the Taliban for the first time yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to end the group's seven-year campaign of terror.

When Tony Abbott picked up one of Australia's major daily newspapers on Monday he would have seen his youngest sister on the front page passionately kissing another woman.

Prime Minister John Key does not expect much progress in his talks with Australian counterpart Tony Abbott today in the key issues of discrimination against expatriate Kiwis and the major supermarkets' move to shed New Zealand products.

Expat Kiwi advocates have launched another bid to win support from Australia's human rights watchdogs in their campaign to end discrimination against NZers.

The son of Benazir Bhutto opened a new front in the war against extremism in Pakistan, with a glittering gala of music and fireworks set against the illuminated ruins of a Bronze Age city.

Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, admitted he has not spoken to President Barack Obama for seven months.

National calls for debt relief as mounting toll of big dry ruins businesses and suicides rise among farmers.

The US Secretary of State was accused of supporting anti-Semitic interests yesterday after warning that Israel faced an economic boycott.

Areas where voting blocked mean result will almost certainly be inconclusive.

This week the agonies of Syria and much of the Mid-East came sharply home to Oz, where the reps of 60 countries met in Sydney for Interpol's inaugural global security and counter-terrorism convention.

Kiwis, regardless of political leanings, can applaud the fact that Helen Clark has been touted internationally as the next Secretary-General of the UN.

A US Congressman who threatened to “break” and throw a journalist off a balcony has defended his actions.