The World Today

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says his discussion with the US President-elect, Donald Trump could not have been warmer. Mr Turnbull says they discussed, trade, the United States' role in the Asia Pacific region, and their shared background as businessman. The Federal Government has also announced that Australia has ratified the Paris climate change agreement.

Environmentalists and renewable energy groups say they're still forging ahead with the Paris Climate Agreement at the latest round of UN climate talks in Morocco. It comes amid concerns Donald Trump's rise to US presidency threatens action on climate change. Mr Trump has labelled climate change a hoax and part of a Chinese conspiracy against US business.

The Government and free-trade proponents are waiting with baited breathe to see if Donald Trump will follow through on the anti-free-trade agenda he espoused during the election campaign. Australia, say some, has much to lose if he backs up talk with action, while others say it's time Australia's pro-trade stance needs to be questioned.

Melania Trump, the incoming first lady of the united states, is a Slovenian-born former model who took an unusually low-key role during the presidential election campaign. So who is Donald Trump's wife and how will the media treat the next FLOTUS?

An Aboriginal mission to the UK and Europe to negotiate the return of centuries-old artefacts has made a shock discovery in a Berlin museum, uncovering items that could date from the first encounter between Aboriginal people and James Cook in Botany Bay in 1770. The crowd-funded team's primary mission was to secure the return of the historic 'Gweagal shield' from the British Museum, but on the Berlin leg of their journey, they stumbled upon an almost identical shield, as well as a boomerang, hidden away in the collection of the city's Ethnological Museum.

Victoria's Corrections Minister has resigned after his taxpayer-funded driver transported his pet dogs across the state. For the past two weeks Steve Herbert has rejected calls to stand down, but today changed his mind.

Religious leaders have met the ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie to voice their concerns about cuts to the national broadcaster's religious programming. They say religious content has been considerably reduced over the past two years. Adding to the anxiety are reports that the ABC Local Radio program Sunday Nights with John Cleary is facing the chop.

Polls are now closing and early projections of state results are beginning to come in as well as some reports of violence. Voters will either elect experienced Democrat Hillary Clinton as the first female President of the United States, or send a shockwave through the political establishment by putting the ultimate outsider, Donald Trump, into the White House. This often ugly 17 month election campaign has exposed deep divisions in the United States, across race, class, gender and within the Republican party.

North America Correspondent Stephanie March is at Democrat Hillary Clinton's headquarters in New York as early results are coming in.

Two former campaign insiders are closely watching this election count. From his office at Stanford, we're joined by research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Bill Whalen, who worked for several Republican campaigns, including George Bush Senior's. And joining us in San Diego is Professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, Samuel Popkin, who has been a consultant to several Democrat campaigns including Bill Clinton's.