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Is bin Laden's son calling for carnage?

Al-Qaeda has released a message, purportedly from Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, calling for attacks on London and other western cities.

Assange locked in war of words

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has again become a lightning rod for accusation and counter-accusation as Swedish prosecutors dropped three sex assault claims against him but intend to pursue a rape claim.

Women get a voice in new Saudi Arabia

At a workshop on a summer day in Riyadh, prospective candidates in local elections are limbering up. One wants to help kids, one to improve living conditions in the Saudi capital, another to become a political role model.

Arrests in Fiji over state plot

Authorities in Fiji believe a British Army veteran has been overseeing secret military training in the country's tropical hinterland as part of a plot to form a breakaway "Christian" state.

Editorial: Republicans must attack Trump now

No one expects 'The Donald' to be President, but his rivals might be better to go for him now before he spoils his party's chances.

Multi-choice vote looming for US

If anything's constant in American political life, it's the stable two-party system. Yet, at times of extreme political flux, this society has broken up into four parties.

Anger fuels outsider candidates in Presidential race

American voters' craving for authenticity in political leaders is aiding hopefuls such as Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders.

Paul Thomas: Trump speaks right language to right people

Why is Donald Trump holding a commanding poll lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination? Paul Thomas has some possible answers.

Man was 12 when 'Heath raped' him

Police have named former British PM Sir Edward Heath as a suspected paedophile in the ongoing investigation into allegations of historic child abuse.

Billy Adams: Bishop saga drags Parliament's reputation to new low

The age of entitlement is over for Lady Bronwyn. No more helicopter trips on the public purse, writes Billy Adams. Public resignations have rarely been so long coming.

Editorial: Trump doing Republicans few favours

the mess the Republicans are making of their challenge has been illustrated yet again by Donald Trump's bumptious hijacking of the British Open women's golf championship.

Jack Tame: Cuba, McDonald's and cheap sex

We were liquored up and keen to dance and they saw us straight away. An unattached white male? Boom.

Italy is the most likely country to leave the euro

Unlike Greece, there was never much of a boom. There has only been a bust.

Bishop gives country what it bayed for

John Howard famously couldn't bring himself to apologise to the stolen generations. This week Bronwyn Bishop finally succumbed over taking taxpayers for an expensive (helicopter) ride.

UK accused of politics over artist

Britain was accused yesterday of playing into the hands of China after it refused the political dissident Ai Weiwei a six-month business visa and claimed he lied on his application form.

Iran: 'Go forth and multiply'

After decades of chanting "Death to America", Iran's rulers have finally embraced a slogan that celebrates life and procreation.