Новости за 07.05.2017

Arsene Wenger got the better of managerial rival Jose Mourinho for the first time in a competitive game as Arsenal beat Manchester United 2-0 in the Premier League to keep alive its Champions League qualification hopes.

The view from Royal Park's 181 hectares of gum trees and native grasses is supposed to evoke the landscape before Europeans arrived.

President Elect Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday a new era in French history was beginning, as the 39-year old pro-EU centrist becomes the country's youngest head of state since Napoleon.

Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union, early projections showed.

Cassandra Sainsbury has reportedly asked the Australian government to help cover her legal costs as she fights drug smuggling charges in Colombia.

Trump should be afraid of his lousy poll showing, Albert R. Hunt

ritish street artist Banksy has taken on Brexit with a mural of a workman chipping away one of the 12 gold stars on the flag of the European Union on a wall in Dover, the ferry port that connects England with Calais in France.

Angela Merkel's party convincingly defeated the Social Democratic incumbent in a state vote in northern Germany, in a disastrous result for her SPD challenger.

The next generation of supermodels has landed, but let's not forget their mothers are still in Vogue, too, says Caroline Leaper

Authorities say they have found the body of an 18-month-old girl who, along with her 4-year-old brother, was ripped away from their mother's arms and swept downstream by floodwaters in rural Arkansas.

Organisers barred journalists on Sunday from a publicly advertised event in Shanghai that offered Chinese investors the chance to get US immigrant visas if they put money in a real estate project linked to the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law.

Fairfax Media exclusively interviews the man most likely to challenge Joko Widodo for the Indonesian presidency in 2019.

The business world is filled with rags to riches stories, but Australia has few like the tale of Swisse Wellness.

Pakistan claimed Sunday to have killed 50 Afghan border troops and destroyed five of their posts in sporadic clashes since Friday near a major border crossing. Afghan officials called the high death toll "baseless" but said that several days of cross-border fighting had left two Afghan forces dead.

​Maria Sharapova set up an intriguing second-round clash with outspoken critic Eugenie Bouchard in the Madrid Open by seeing off Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 4-6 6-4 6-0 on Sunday.

Seoul: North Korea said on Sunday it has detained another American citizen on suspicion of acts against the state, which if confirmed would make him the fourth US citizen to be held by the isolated country amid diplomatic tensions.

Kurtley Beale could hold the key to a last-ditch Super Rugby finals bid by the embattled NSW Waratahs.

Paris: A press room and the courtyard of the Louvre Museum where French presidential candidate and favourite Emmanuel Macron was expected to speak on Sunday was evacuated for security checks after a suspicious luggage item was found, police and a campaign official said.

Cashed-up baby boomers dominated activity at weekend auctions.

Fresh from filming with the Godfather of modern cooking, Brisbane-born actor Lincoln Lewis has been announced as an ambassador for the City2South next month.

The spectre of fresh corruption scandals hangs over the annual gathering of world soccer leaders, two years after the FIFA Congress was shaken by the exposure of far-reaching fraud.

​The former president of East Timor says Australia is arguing for an "unsustainable" maritime border as it would include sovereignty of his country if it was strictly followed.

​The explosion of populism that swept Donald Trump into the White House and triggered Brexit has made for the most worrying political climate in decades and greatly increased uncertainty for investors, the CEO of Allianz Global Investors said.

Battery makers worldwide are watching to see whether Australia's most wind power-dependent state can keep the lights on by installing grid-scale batteries by December, which could help drive the growth of renewable energy across Australia and Asia.

John Egan's home was underwater when he got an emergency alert warning too evacuate. The effectiveness of Australia's emergency alert system has been questioned.