Barbara Miller

A massive stage has been erected on the South Lawn of the White House as Donald Trump prepares to host an Ultimate Fighting Championship event this weekend.

Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles was left in the lurch on a visit to the UK when his counterpart resigned hours before a joint AUKUS event. 

The Northern Ireland capital, Belfast has seen a second night of unrest following a brutal stabbing attack earlier in the week. 

As UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer fights for his political life, the country is bracing for what could be a yet another summer of unrest.

Police are on alert in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast after a brutal stabbing attack sparked anti-immigration protests in parts of the city.

Carrying inflatable pink flamingos and signs saying 'Ivanka Go Home' and 'Albania is not for sale' thousands of people have again taken to the streets of Albania's capital, Tirana. 

The status of a ceasefire agreed between the governments of Lebanon and Israel is unclear after Hezbollah emphatically rejected the deal.

Any sense of a real breakthrough in hostilities in southern Lebanon was short lived, with Hezbollah rejecting outright a peace deal agreed between Lebanon and Israel. 

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire after US-brokered talks in Washington. 

Dozens of trees in the wealthy Sydney suburb of Mosman are suspected to have been vandalised in recent years, including more than a dozen Port Jackson figs thought to have been injected with a herbicide.

The first detailed snapshot of the housing market since the latest interest rate rise and the Federal budget's tax reform announcements has been released.

The Federal Government has launched legal action against the US chemical giant 3M over a fire-fighting foam that contaminated 28 defence force bases.

Israel has declared the whole of southern Lebanon a combat zone, telling the entire population to move north, or risk being caught in military action against alleged Hezbollah targets.

Two weeks out from the opening match of the World Cup, authorities in two US states have subpoenaed FIFA over its ticketing practices.

The sparks have been flying in Federal Parliament this afternoon, with Opposition Leader Angus Taylor is reported by Nine media to have called the Prime Minister an "arrogant prick" during Question Time.

Police have laid terrorism charges against another woman linked to the Islamic State group.

A senior police officer has cautioned against giving private Jewish security guards greater powers to carry weapons in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack.

Attacks on Ebola treatment centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are making containing the outbreak of the deadly disease more difficult.

Prices are rising in Australia, just not quite as fast as last month.

An Indian steel company and an Australian-owned enterprise led by a coal billionaire are the two remaining bids to take over Whyalla's steelworks after it was placed into administration last year.

Indigenous rights campaigner Travis Lovett has delivered a letter inscribed on a kangaroo skin to the Prime Minister on the steps of Parliament House in Canberra, at the end of a 900 kilometre trek.

The Government has announced a shake-up to the unemployment system, announcing sweeping changes for those without work seeking welfare.

Firearms licensing is expected to be examined in today's hearing at the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion set up in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack. 

The police presence at the Chanukah by the Sea event targeted in the Bondi Beach terror attack has been the focus of today's hearings of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has heard Jewish witnesses who have appeared before it are being targeted with online hate.