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Political leadership is about rising to the occasion, but US President Donald Trump looks in danger of deflating.

The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives –  who rose to fame by peddling the traditionalist lifestyle to a new generation – are living a very different reality.

The US president has unleashed global chaos with his war on Iran. At this stage, the only geographical location that won’t be negatively affected is Epstein Island.

An Iranian projectile has struck near an Australian defence base in the United Arab Emirates. Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East.

Iran has targeted Tel Aviv after an Israeli strike killed senior regime official Ali Larijani, as both sides continue to trade blows and the US works to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

In a scene that would have once been unimaginable, an alleged IRA commander faced questions in a London courtroom about terrorist attacks.

Without oil from Venezuela, the island nation is in crisis. Now Trump says he will ‘take’ it. How did Cuba get here, and what’s next?

Allies are berated when they don’t offer to help, and belittled when they do. As with the sudden resignation of MAGA ally Joe Kent, what goes around comes around.

The US president is furious with Australia and other allies for not sending military support to the Strait of Hormuz, but this is a mess of his own making.

Ali Larijani’s death could mean a further militarisation of the Iranian system and deeper “regime radicalisation”.

Donald Trump says that he never needed or wanted other countries’ help in Iran, while lashing out at US allies – including Australia

The president named Australia among the countries whose help he no longer needed in the effort to unblock the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and went as far as saying that the US should rethink its involvement in NATO.

Thousands of flights cancelled across eastern US due to lingering winter storm.

With the movement of oil tankers in the Middle East at a standstill, the Australian government has confirmed it hasn't been asked to send the navy to the Gulf.

With the US-Israeli war on Iran in its third week, Israel says it has killed two top Iranian officials, while the situation at the strait has thrown Trump’s foreign policy agenda into chaos.

As the regime’s internet blackout continues, state media is the only source of information for millions of Iranians.

The debt-ridden author slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a cocktail and falsely believed she would inherit his multimillion-dollar estate, prosecutors say.

Welcome to our rolling coverage of the war in the Middle East, which continues to rage across multiple fronts, fuelling fears of a global energy crisis.

The US president threatened to delay his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping unless Beijing helped to police the Strait of Hormuz. His officials soon backtracked.