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The AMP chair Catherine Brenner will reportedly be asked to resign during board crisis meetings in the wake of the banking royal commission. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the banks must be held to account for wrongdoing.

Australia's cyber spy agency wants to monitor emails, bank records and text messages of Australian citizens. The Department of Home Affairs and Defence secretly discussed the proposed new powers for the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Newscorp has reported. The agency claims the move will disrupt paedophile rings, terror networks, and transnational crime syndicates. Currently the ASD must not produce intelligence on any Australian.

Labor has promised to remove the 10 per cent GST ‘tampon tax' if it wins the next election. The tax — which is worth $30 million a year — is slapped on sanitary products due to their classification as luxury items. Products such as condoms and lubricant are classified as essential products, making them exempt from GST. Opposition leader Bill Shorten described the 'tampon tax' as a 'tax on women'.

A rising St. John River triggered evacuations in the Fredericton, New Brunswick, area on Saturday, April 28. The rain was at 1.7 meters above flood level and and approaching levels last reached in 2008, the last major flood, a news report said. Officials helped evacuate 10 homes overnight, and several other peoples evacuated on their own. Several roads and highways had to be closed because of flooding. This video shows a kayakers behind the Fredericton Public Library, which is near the river. Credit... Читать дальше...

A WATERFRONT penthouse offers a luxurious entertainer’s lifestyle and has a huge 244sqm of living space all on a single level.

IT’S a little out of the ordinary, but the vendors of this renovated 1970s Upper Sturt A-frame say it offers an amazing lifestyle and a fantastic connection to its natural environment.

Australia is set to deploy surveillance aircraft to North Korea to monitor its compliance with sanctions imposed by the UN. The government says the rogue nation must now take steps to denuclearise if it wants to prove it has genuine intentions for peace on the peninsula.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to announce a $500 million environmental protection package for the Great Barrier Reef from Cairns. The funding will help save the reef from pollution and the effects of climate change, with $200 million going towards augmenting farming practices and improving water quality. The decision follows a strong pro-mining jobs focus from the government.

KATY Perry might be seeking forgiveness for her legal stoush with an American nun.

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WOODVILLE West offers an address that’s handy to the beach, city and airport, minus a hefty price tag.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Saudi Arabia on a hastily arranged visit to the Middle East as the United States aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran.

THIS home is a rare find for families looking to get into Thornleigh.

Sainsbury's and Walmart's Asda are in talks to create Britain's biggest supermarket group, overtaking Tesco by market share in a combination of their UK businesses worth up to GBP15 billion ($A90 billion).

US President Donald Trump is betting on a big crowd and a friendly reception at a rally in Michigan, one of the states in the upper Midwest that Hillary Clinton counted on in 2016 but saw slip away.

FRENCH first lady Brigitte Macron has heaped praise on her “fun” and “intelligent” American counterpart Melania Trump after her three-day visit to Washington.

KANYE West accused good friend John Legend of manipulating him this week in a series of texts the rapper posted on Twitter.

Protesters surrounded by black smoke from burning tires used a rope to pull barbed wire off the border fence near Khan Younis in Gaza on April 27. Other footage showed injured people being carried away from the burning tires, including one man who the person filming said was hit by a tear gas canister in his face. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said three people were killed and over 600 wounded in Gaza on April 27. Credit: Amjad ALreqp via Storyful

A lava lake at the summit of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has now overflowed into the Halema‘uma‘u crater to cover two-thirds of its floor. A timelapse from the US Geological Survey shows 24 hours of activity between April 25-26. The largest of the flows from the lake into the crater was between 6:15am and 10:30am on April 26, when the lava covered 90 acres, or two-thirds, of the crater floor. It’s the first significant overflow of the summit lava lake since 2015, the agency said. Overflows have been taking place since April 21. Читать дальше...

Conservatives rallied in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Saturday, April 28, to voice their opposition to the government and to ongoing peace talks with North Korea. A member of the Korean Patriot’s Party told Yonhap News that the negotiations were a fraud and that not enough emphasis was being placed on nuclear disarmament when announcing the talks. Credit: Jung Byung Hwa via Storyful

North Korea's state news agency has called the inter-Korean summit a turning point for the Korean peninsula, while US President Donald Trump says he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un.

Thousands of balloons were released on April 29 outside the Liverpool hospital where 23-month-old Alfie Evans died the day before. Alfie’s parents had been involved in a legal battle over the right to remove their son from Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital after a court ruled that doctors could stop treating Evans. Evans had been in a coma for more than a year due to a degenerative neurological condition that had not been definitively identified, local media reported. Credit: Martyn Toft via Storyful

Venice has installed temporary gates at the ends of two bridges to turn back tourists if their numbers become overwhelming.

US President Donald Trump says he’s had “a long and very good talk” with the South Korean president, who’s just had a historic meeting with North Korea’s leader.

British supermarket giant Sainsbury's has confirmed it is in talks with Walmart over a possible merger with the US retail giant's British arm, Asda.