North Korea yesterday sugges-ted holding a preparatory meeting with South Korea ahead of proposed military talks  that it said could "prevent in advance a second Korean war”, reports AFP. The military dialogue had initially been offered by leader Kim Jung-Un in his speech to a rare congress…

Iran's foreign minister yesterday said the United States must take concrete steps to encourage investors to engage with Tehran, a day after Western powers said they back legal business with Iran, reports AFP. "More serious and concrete actions must be taken by the US in this regard," Foreign…

Families of victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, are suing President Vladimir Putin and Russia for Aus$10 million each in the European Court of Human Rights, AFP reports quoting The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday. The compensation claim was filed with…

A Dutch climber has died after reaching the summit of Mount Everest, expedition organisers said yesterday, the third death in a week to hit the Himalayan climbing season, reports AFP. The mountaineer, named as Eric Arnold, died at Camp 4 after falling ill with altitude sickness late Friday as he descended…

The National Rifle Association on Friday endorsed Donald Trump for US president, saying it was time to unite behind the Republican or "kiss your guns goodbye" if Hillary Clinton is elected, AFP reports. "We have to unite and we have to unite right now," Chris Cox, head of the NRA's…

At least 60,000 people have died in Syrian government prisons over the past five years from torture or due to dire humanitarian conditions, including a lack of food, AFP reports quoting a monitor yesterday. The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, Rami Abdel Rahman, said…

DNA tests have confirmed that three man-eating Nile crocodiles have been found living in Florida's swamps, BBC reports. Unlike local alligators, the…