What started as an ordinary renovation job turned into a discovery straight out of a movie.
On Monday, August 10, workers renovating the basement of...
Australia's Attorney General, Christian Porter is at the centre of a rape accusation that is threatening to end his political career.
A letter sent to the country's Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week alleged Porter had raped a 16-year-old girl in 1988. The woman took her own life last year.
He has denied the allegations.
The attorney general said he had known the woman "for the briefest periods, in debating competitions, when we were teenagers, about 33 years ago". She had been one of his teammates, he added.
Asked by journalists, he said he did not think he had ever been alone with the woman and had had no contact with her since January 1988.
Porter said Morrison had given...
Taiwan's President for the first time in the Island's history has confirmed the presence of US military troops on the island.
President Tsai Ing-wen says the threat from Beijing is growing "every day," adding that Taiwan, which is located fewer than 200 kilometers (124 miles) away from China's southeastern coast, was a "beacon" of democracy that needed to be defended to uphold faith worldwide in democratic values.
Taiwan and mainland China have been separately governed since the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese civil war more than 70 years ago. Taiwan is now a democracy but the mainland's ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to view the island as an inseparable part of...
