Oil prices have surged as both sides ratchet up attacks on energy facilities. Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and related developments in Australia.

The US president has distanced himself from an Israeli attack on Iran’s South Pars offshore gas field as tit-for-tat strikes on energy infrastructure escalate the Middle East conflict and propel oil prices even higher.

After he left jail in 2009, Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.

The oil shocks of the 1970s had once taught presidents and military chiefs to observe some caution in the Middle East.

US Vice President JD Vance has told a US audience that other countries around the world had it worse on petrol prices.

Iranian women footballers have arrived home after dropping Australian asylum bids.

Israel has struck a major Iranian gas field as Tehran threatens to respond.

The Sydney-born Trump diehard will serve as special presidential envoy for “American tourism, exceptionalism and values” after being dumped as US ambassador to Malaysia.

For the ordinary Trump-voting American, the Middle East conflict is a long way away. But what Americans will have noticed is that petrol prices have soared more than US80¢ a gallon.

The killing of Iran’s intelligence minister is the third Israeli assassination of Iran’s leadership in two days.

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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.

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”.