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.

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.

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

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”.

Are you a fomo sapiens? Judging by his behaviour at Nelson Mandela's memorial service, Barack Obama is a member of this new sub-species.

Apparently it takes Christmas bells to wake up Washington. Or maybe it's the realisation that 2013 is almost at an end and the record has been, well, more or less pathetic.

Tony Abbott has discovered that it is much harder to control the news agenda in government - and that voters are a volatile bunch.