Prime Minister Scott Morrison is one of several key world leaders to have their travel disrupted because the airport has been deemed too dangerous. 

Muslim community advocates have slammed the planned “They Are Us” film to feature Australian Rose Byrne as Jacinda Ardern as distasteful.

People and companies who comply with US and EU rules may be denied entry into China or be expelled. Their assets may be seized or frozen.

Suddenly, it seems, everyone in America has very long hair: men, women, children…Will regular haircuts become a thing of the past?

As the government clamps down on dissent and the COVID-19 crisis deepens, opposition political figures have appealed to the king to lift the state of emergency.

The satellite would allow continuous monitoring of facilities ranging from Persian Gulf oil refineries and Israeli military bases to Iraqi barracks that house US troops. 

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There will be no foreign spectators, limited numbers of Japanese fans – and even cheering is banned. Welcome to a Games like no other.

Scientist on UK advisory board says wearing masks should be as routine as wearing seatbelts.

National Geographic announced this week it will recognise the body of water that encircles Antarctica and runs along Australia’s southern coast near Victoria, as the world’s fifth.

Johnson was clearly trying to shed his Trumpian image and develop a bond with the new US President.

“Nothing is really in my defence,” Toobin said. “This was deeply moronic and indefensible. . . . It was wrong, it was stupid, and I’m trying to be a better person.”

The US agency and other health regulators have been investigating heart inflammation cases after Israel’s Health Ministry reported it had found a likely link to the condition in young men.

In a touch of symbolism, US first lady Jill Biden wore a black jacket with “LOVE” embroidered on the back, which she said was a message of “love from America”.

Australian and US officials are hoping to co-ordinate the visit with a high-powered joint summit with the Japanese and Indian prime ministers in Washington.

Damien Tarel was also banned from ever holding public office in France after he slapped Emmanuel Macron’s left cheek as the French leader was greeting a crowd.

Emma Coronel Aispuro appeared in federal court in Washington and pleaded guilty to three federal offences as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has offered his view on how to handle relations with the rising superpower after a meeting with Scott Morrison on Thursday.

Tokyo’s patience with China - as demonstrated by its strong backing of Australia - is wearing thin despite centuries of shared culture, trade and war.

The country’s second-largest lake is gone. It dried up about five years ago. Its people and language are struggling to stay alive.

The 79-year-old from Los Angeles has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering.

The first in-person gathering of world leaders since the pandemic began features a beach barbecue, but the summit’s main menu is several meaty issues.

The unappetising muck has become a source of national embarrassment and rising anger, prompting the President to intervene.

It may not be a race in Australia, but the urgency to distribute whatever COVID-19 vaccine supplies are available in the region is palpable.

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Last week the Brazil-based multinational said it was the victim of a ransomware attack, but this is the first time its US division confirms it paid up.

“We have to end COVID-19 not just at home - which we’re doing - but everywhere,” Biden told US troops based in England.

The White House will conduct its own review of security risks in TikTok and WeChat, as Trump orders “weren’t always implemented in the soundest fashion”.

Harry and Meghan claim it is “defamatory” for the BBC to say Duke did not consult the Queen about using her nickname for their baby daughter.

Damien Tarel’s motives for slapping the French President remain unclear but his cry “Montjoie! Saint Denis!” is a centuries-old royalist call to arms.

The extremism label carries lengthy prison terms for anyone who has worked with Navalny’s groups, donated to them, and even shared the groups’ posts.

While high-ranking politicians from the US, UK and Asia have visited Indonesia in the last year, Australia hasn’t sent anyone - but China is strengthening links.

The city of Guangzhou tested practically its entire population of 18.7 million over three days following an outbreak of the Delta variant.

The move sandwiches China between the world’s first and third-largest economies after the US said it would not leave Australia to face Beijing alone. 

Democrats and Republicans put aside their bitter differences to pass a vast bill designed to get America to out-compete China economically and technologically.

He was an unlikely presidential candidate, a rural teacher who for the past 25 years has seen his students struggle in crumbling schools where his colleagues also cook and sweep floors.

“This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Parliament.

Students voted to remove a portrait of Her Majesty alleging it represented “colonialism”.

The US Vice-President readily admits she can’t fix the root causes of Central American migration to the US “in two days”.

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Four days after the birth of her daughter Lilibet, the Duchess’ first book The Bench, a rhyming tribute to fathers, has received tough reviews

Asked what he would do if the UK government postponed lifting the lockdown, the composer replied: “We will say: ‘come to the theatre and arrest us’.”

Asked how much worse it could have been if he hadn’t paid, Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount told the Senate: “That’s an unknown we probably don’t want to know.”

A source leaked tax data to ProPublica on the wealthiest people in the US, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg.

That this is the third time Morrison has been invited to the G7 stands as a testament that Australia’s warnings on China are being heard.

Prosecutors said Pearse and his co-conspirators used a practice called “auto-subscribing” to bilk unwitting customers for unsolicited messages about celebrity gossip, horoscopes, jokes, love tips and trivia.

The judge said there was evidence the aeroplane was hit by an outside explosion caused by a Russian-made Buk missile.

The rejection of Mladic’s appeals closed a grim chapter in European history that included the continent’s first genocide since World War II.

In a video circulating on social media, the French President reaches out his hand to greet a man in a small crowd of onlookers before he is slapped in the face.

Her body was found in a bag in woodland in the county of Kent one week after she vanished in a case that outraged Britain.