A secret affair with the potential to rock the British Government was revealed yesterday, leaving Prime Minister David Cameron 'stunned'.

When the US charged into Afghanistan in 2001 in hot pursuit of Al Qaeda, analysts sought deeper explanations for the Bush Administration's foray into the nation that humbled British and Russian arms.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has visited MI5 headquarters to thank spies for their round-the-clock work.

The United States wants to continue a criminal data matching scheme for assessing risks of threats that it began with New Zealand in advance of the Rugby World Cup.

New Zealand edged a step closer to committing peacekeepers to a new area of the Middle East.

An impressive line-up of six former trade ministers of the United States formed a panel yesterday at the US NZ Pacific Partnership Forum in Washington.

Australia's internet gambling king Tom Waterhouse is feeling the blast from outrage over live betting odds.

Yesterday's meeting between Murray McCully and John Kerry in Washington DC was a sign that things between the US and New Zealand have moved to a new plane.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's change of heart to support gay marriage may indicate numbers shifting in support of legalising same-sex marriage among parliamentarians.

Preschools and childcare centres in New South Wales may be given the legal right to refuse to enrol children who have not been vaccinated.

As a former Prime Minister and a man very firm in his views, Jim Bolger has always been a bit stroppy, writes Audrey Young.

Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

David Cameron has been told by Conservative activists that he must repair the broken relationship between the party leadership and the grassroots.

The cost of policing the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange takes refuge inside has now risen to £3.3 million ($6.2 million), Scotland Yard has disclosed.

A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time in a test flight that could open the way for unmanned aircraft.

Business and economic commentators have given Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth - and probably last - Budget a unanimous thumbs down.

The mob shouted "Kill the Syrians" as they marched on the Hawam family drinks stall in Reyhanli.

Hijacking an aircraft is not an offence you would normally associate with a man who stands on the verge of becoming Prime Minister of his country.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a US$127,000 ($153,000) double bed installed on a plane to carry him and his wife Sara on their five-hour flight.

Three years after Ireland's €67.5 billion financial rescue by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, signs are the Emerald Isle is on the improve.

Editorial: The drums are beating for more children to learn Mandarin. The Prime Minister wants more pupils to consider it. Education expert Wendy Pye goes further.

After a riot at Perth's Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre, more than 140 teenage inmates were moved to Hakea high security prison

Five years after Obama said he'd shut it, over 100 prisoners, including a British resident - are still chained in Guantanamo. DAVID JONES went inside and was horrified by what he found.

Australian consumers are spending again, though not as much of their income as they did before the global crisis five years ago.

Emaciated and frail, more than 100 men lie on concrete floors of freezing, solitary cells in Guantanamo, silently starving themselves to death.

British intelligence is handing "bundles" of cash to Hamid Karzai for special peace projects despite warnings that handouts are promoting corruption in his regime.