Renters deal with unprecedented price increases - making life increasingly difficult in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.

French man Dominique Pelicot has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars after he was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife Gisele.

Penny Wong uses a visit to Kyiv to reopen Australia's Ukraine Embassy as Russia makes an arrest over the assassination of a top general in Moscow.

Australia rushing aid to Vanuatu as a massive earthquakes strikes - destroying houses and critical infrastructure - with the death toll expected to rise.

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad says he would have stayed and fought - if it wasn't for his Russian allies making him to leave.

The story behind the top secret negotiations which has seen the last of the Bali 9 drug smugglers released from an Indonesian prison and returned to Australia as free men.

The Coalition claims its nuclear plan is significantly cheaper than Labor's renewable energy policy

Iran's Supreme leader accuses the US and Israel of toppling the Assad Regime in Syria as fears grow that the instability could allow the return of Islamic State.

Israel launches a wave of strikes on military sites across Syria - destroying its navy and targeting suspected chemical weapons facilities.

Scenes of pain and joy as Syrians rush to find family members who've been locked in prison by the ousted Assad regime.