A federal US judge sanctioned former president Donald Trump and his lawyers nearly $1m for a “frivolous” lawsuit claiming Hillary Clinton had tried to rig the 2016 election.

Education and police minister Chris Hipkins is set to become the new leader of the Labour Party and New Zealand’s next Prime Minister.

Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, on Thursday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change.

A cane toad so giant wildlife officers thought it was fake has been found in a north Australian rainforest.

“I think you’re going to find there’s nothing there,” he said.

Netflix is hiring a flight attendant for one of its private jets – with the successful applicant being paid as much as $385,000 (£313,538) a year.

The US president and former secretary of state have paid tribute to Jacinda Ardern after her bombshell resignation on Thursday.

Jacinda Ardern admits she “slept well for the first time in a long time” following her bombshell announcement yesterday that’s she stepping down as Prime Minister.

At least 145 passengers are missing and feared dead after a motorized boat overloaded with goods and animals sank at night on a river in northwestern Congo, authorities said Thursday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned a further 31 Kiwis from entering Russia, including TVNZ chief executive Simon Power and Clarke Gayford, the fiancé of outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

At least 1.1 million people protested on the streets of Paris and other French cities Thursday amid nationwide strikes against plans to raise the retirement age — but President Emmanuel Macron insisted he would press ahead with the proposed pension reforms.

People poured into Peru’s coastal capital, many from remote Andean regions, for a protest Thursday against President Dina Boluarte and in support of her predecessor, whose ouster last month launched deadly unrest and cast the nation into political chaos.