Unions have lifted their minimum wage demands to six per cent after the federal budget warned inflation would hit five per cent by the middle of the year.

A US citizen has been convicted of helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.

US President Donald Trump has received a grand welcome at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People ahead ‌of talks with China’s Xi Jinping set to cover their fragile trade truce, the Iran war and US arms sales to Taiwan.

Russia unleashed a massive daytime drone attack on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting critical infrastructure in the west, killing at ​least six people and prompting NATO-member Poland to scramble fighter jets, officials said.

Nearly three weeks after an Indian family of four were found dead in their home, investigators tell the BBC they are no closer to knowing what actually happened.

US President Donald Trump is heading into a series of meetings ‌with China’s Xi Jinping in Beijing, aiming to secure economic wins, maintain a fragile trade truce and navigate thorny issues such as the Iran war and arms sales to Taiwan.

The US-Israeli war in Iran is looming over US President Donald Trump’s visit to China, as signs emerged that the conflict is shifting alliances across the Middle East.

When U.S. President Donald Trump meets ChinesePresident Xi Jinping this week he is expected to ask for help resolving his costly and unpopular war with Iran.

Britain’s grand parliament opening ceremony ‌does not normally feature an elephant.

Russian forces have launched attacks in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk ‌region, killing at least six people, after the expiry of a US-mediated ceasefire.

Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said.

A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that towering trade tariffs would bring America’s main economic rival to heel.