Donald Trump says he was just an hour away from launching a new attack on Iran as the US president sets a new deadline for the country to come to a deal.

The Russian leader has been welcomed to Beijing with the same red carpet pomp bestowed on Trump days earlier. But while Putin and Xi share an unmatchable bromance, the US-China relationship matters more to Beijing.

An absence of focus projects has plagued the second prong of the Australia-UK-US pact, with industry leaders regularly complaining about a lack of strategic direction.

Soon after killing Iran’s supreme leader and other top officials, the US and Israel reportedly considered installing hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a more pliable replacement.

The US president may be keeping cards close to his chest on what happens next at Iran, but he can’t get enough of talking up his design choices for the $US400 million ballroom.

The Duchess of Sussex has shared previously unseen images from her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry to mark the couple’s eighth anniversary.

The US president has provided a peek into the construction of his $US400 million ballroom, insisting it's a 'gift' to the nation.

UK police are investigating child sexual assault allegations linked to the Jeffrey Epstein files.

A new vaccine to battle the ebola virus outbreak in Africa remains months away, health experts say.

Surveillance camera footage appeared to show that the cover was dislodged by a truck that drove over it about 12 minutes before Donike Gocaj, 56, fell in.

Trump could have been liable for a tax bill exceeding $US100 million, plus interest and potential penalties, if he lost an IRS audit.

Finnish divers on Monday spotted the bodies of four missing divers deep inside an underwater cave. Efforts are continuing to retrieve the remains of the final two.

The 11 Australians were among 426 people taking part in a 54-vessel flotilla from 39 countries aiming to challenge a naval blockade of Gaza.

Police are treating a deadly shooting at a mosque in the US city of San Diego as a hate crime.

A full-scale military attack on Iran was still possible at a moment’s notice, the US president warned, if an agreement was not reached.

Samuel Monkivitch is accused of fleeing four venues, including restaurants at five-star Shangri-la hotels, without paying the bill. He pleaded guilty and was fined for running out on a massage parlour and a Chinese restaurant, as well as assaulting a...

Authorities are now piecing together the horrific hate crime that left five people dead – including the two suspected teenage gunmen – and has rocked California and the US.

Health officials are racing to contain a rare strain of the disease that spread under the radar in Africa.

Five people are dead including two teenage suspects after a shooting at the largest mosque in San Diego, California.