The World Today

One of four men jailed in connection with South Australia's notorious Snowtown murders, has applied to the parole board seeking his release. Mark Ray Haydon was sentenced to 25 years for helping to dispose of bodies hidden in acid-filled barrels in a bank vault in the 1990s. The parole board says if he ticks all the right boxes, he could be free later this year, although victims' families can lodge a submission expressing their concern.

Organ donation advocates have hailed a decision to extend a program which will alleviate the financial stress on living donors. The Federal Government will tomorrow unveil an extra $4.1 million in its budget to reimburse bosses for any leave or pay to workers who take time off to recover from organ donation.

Ovarian cancer presents with vague symptoms, there's no easy way to test for it and the survival rate is below 50 per cent. Now a Hunter Valley couple is funding a 10-year research fellowship to try to turn that around.

Slow wages growth looks set to continue for Australian workers and remains a potential drag on the economy and pay packets, the Reserve Bank has signalled. In its quarterly statement on monetary policy released today, the RBA says low wages growth is complicating the return to a normalised level of inflation of between two and three per cent.

The highly-anticipated meeting between Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump has happened. Their meeting, on board the USS Intrepid in New York was delayed and shorter than expected, but the two discussed issues of trade, security, and a refugee deal between the two countries. It's the first time the two leaders have met in person, and follows a tense call between the pair shortly after President Trump won the election.

Brendan Thomas-Noone, a research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney joins The World Today to discuss whether both leaders were genuinely making attempts to mend any fractures in their relationship.

US President Donald Trump is celebrating his first legislative victory, with the passage of his healthcare bill through one house after weeks of controversy. But it's still far from becoming law, with the bill yet to go through the Senate, where the government has a narrower majority. And Democrats are now vowing to do everything possible to derail the legislation.

Delegates from Russia, Iran and Turkey have agreed to create 'de-escalation zones' across four areas in Syria to come into effect on Saturday. It's the latest attempt to bring warring parties in the country to heel after six years of fighting. But the status of the deal is now unclear after members of the armed Syrian opposition stormed out of the meeting.

It's been one of Australia's most bitter clashes of the year - and it's all happened off the field. Tomorrow morning, the Australian Olympic President John Coates will be challenged for the first time in his career by the former Hockey Gold Medallist, Danni Roche.

As Scott Morrison puts his finishing touches on Tuesday's Federal Budget, business leaders are ramping up the pressure for meaningful reform on tax and infrastructure spending. The Australian Industry Group wants to see the budget brought back into balance over the next five years with measures that will secure the nation's prized AAA credit rating.