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.

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.

A national campaign is being prepared in Australia to challenge the exclusion of expatriate New Zealanders and Pacific Islanders from welfare and other Government assistance.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says he is disappointed he had to drop out of the race to become the director-general of the World Trade Organisation.

Hamid Karzai has confirmed that his Government received money from the CIA.

George W. Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all, and those of us who said that he was owe him an apology.

Three British men found guilty of possession of drugs in Dubai have each been sentenced to four years in prison.

The Boston bombings have reaffirmed Australia's commitment to its burgeoning counter-intelligence agency, which is preparing to move.

Editorial: When the Marriage Equality Bill passes its final vote in Parliament, possibly tonight, it will signify a marked social change.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's reform rollout, central to her hopes of restoring support ahead of the September 14 election, has hit a wall.

Russia has plunged into a propaganda battle over the trial this week of the leading opposition activist, Alexey Navalny.

A background check will not scoop up those who have lower level mental health problems, writes Anna Fifield. Nor will it not affect the overwhelming majority of private gun sales.

When John Key met his second Chinese vice-premier in two days yesterday, he and Wang Yang shared a joke about the photo Key had seen of them hanging in Guangzhou's Foreign Affairs Museum.

A show of unity by Britain's three main political parties over Margaret Thatcher since her death ended when Labour MPs launched strong attacks on her record during Commons tributes to her.

Almost 30 years since the first proposal was put to Bob Hawke's Labor Government, a 350km/h train running from Brisbane to Melbourne is back on Australia's agenda.