Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin will freeze over before Cory Bernardi becomes leader of the Liberal Party.

Backed by 73% of voters, Democrat lays out plan to increase taxes on rich to provide services for poor.

"Cull pollies not sharks" urged one of the placards waved by the thousands of protesters who rallied at the weekend.

The serenity of Thailand has disappeared over the past couple of months. Street clashes in Bangkok between demonstrators and the police shortly after Christmas left two people dead and more than 140 injured.

It's always dangerous to declare "mission accomplished". Former US president George W. Bush did it weeks after he invaded Iraq, and it will be quoted in history books a century hence as proof of his arrogance and his ignorance.

General Peter Cosgrove is set to become the next Governor-General of Australia, it's been reported, with a formal announcement tipped for late next month.

Allies stand firmly on sidelines as France suffers first casualties in CAR intervention.

South Sudan faces`worst case scenario' as Machar's forces seize control of pivotal state.

Winston Peters says we need to use the success of Kiwis like Lorde and Sir Peter Jackson as part of our foreign policy to promote our image abroad.

A long line of evacuees stretched from the departures area of Juba Airport into the baking sun of South Sudan.

Escaper from North Korea's camps is appalled by US basketball star's cosy relationship with regime's head.

Released to his stunned family, businessman says jailed 'hostages' including ex-colleague must be next.

Turning the Coalition's best known three-word slogan into reality was always going to be a tough ask for the Abbott Government in Australia.

More than a hundred relatives of Jang Song Thaek have reportedly been arrested and sent to prison camps.

This month, a Washington Post/ABC poll placed President Obama at 43 per cent, the lowest level since Richard Nixon sat in the White House.

South Africa has successfully pulled off one of the most important events it will ever host, and with some style, writes Andrew Austin.

She already combines the decidedly Herculean roles of Cabinet minister and mother of her seven mainly school-aged children.

David Cameron has urged Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt to auction the controversial selfie she took at Nelson Mandela's memorial for charity.

The Sun newspaper in Britain has been forced to apologise after it included a pregnant MP in its list of the "laziest" politicians.

Pope Francis has been forced to defend his economic and social ideologies after prominent conservatives accused him of coming forward with “pure Marxism”.

A return to South Africa triggers deep thoughts - can one person have two homelands?

What a difference a couple of decades, two disastrous wars and a stubborn recession make.