After talking by phone, the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents announced their willingness to hold a meeting at the "Normandy Format" on the situation in Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron has given his "total support" to the initiative.

Volodymyr Zelensky's arrival in power is reshaping the cards for solving the Ukrainian crisis? At the initiative of the Ukrainian side, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart spoke by telephone on August 7, and agreed to hold a meeting in the "Normandy Format", that is to say with France and Germany.

A controversial Bondi Beach mural highlighting Australia's immigration detention system has been painted over just hours after a fiery council meeting declared it should stay.

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Energy Minister Angus Taylor has ordered a parliamentary inquiry into nuclear energy.

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Cathy has done it again. the best cartoon in the world from Cathy Wilcox... SMH (06/08/2019)...

In a time before Instagram, Pink Lake was a place that had to be seen to be believed, inspiring Dreamtime stories and considered a natural treasure by locals.

"I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures." -- Boss Tweed

In 1868, Tweed became grand sachem (leader) of Tammany Hall and was also elected to the New York State Senate, and in 1870 he and his cronies took control of the city treasury when they passed a new city charter that named them as the board of audit. In full force now, the Tweed ring began to financially drain the city of New York through faked leases, false vouchers, extravagantly padded bills and various other schemes set up and controlled by the ring.

US President Donald Trump has imposed another round of sanctions on Russia over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain, a move Moscow says will hurt already-strained US-Russia ties.

The record-breaking heatwave that roasted Europe last month was a one-in-a-thousand-year event made up to 100 times more likely by human-driven climate change, scientists have calculated.

The Morrison government must be thanking its lucky stars for John Setka.

Who would it point to in order to stir support for the latest tranche of proposed anti-union legislation, were it not for Setka?

Although his circumstances are vastly different, Anthony Albanese is in sync with Scott Morrison in using the authority of leadership to the maximum.