Pro-Putin party well ahead in Duma vote
Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin have comfortably won a parliamentary election.
US mall attack carried out by soldier: IS
A man who stabbed nine people at a central Minnesota mall before he was shot dead was a "soldier of the Islamic State", the militant group's news agency says.
US: Mendelsohn in Thrones Emmy battle
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Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn is expected to fall victim to a dominant Game of Thrones onslaught at the 68th Emmy Awards.
Sound of Music actress Charmian Carr dies
Charmian Carr, best known for portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rogers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, has died. She was 73.
Police search for NYC blast terror link
US authorities are trying to establish whether an explosion that left 29 people wounded in Manhattan is linked to international terrorism.
PM has Sunday coffee with Aussies in NY
In a 19th century New York church opposite Central Park you can hear a familiar - and unexpected - Australian accent.
