AUSTRALIA can’t lecture anyone on a solution for the South China Sea until it sorts out its own long-running sea border dispute with East Timor where $40 billion in oil and gas resources is in play.

A FORMER Philippine police officer has spoken out about his life as an alleged murderer when the Punisher was his boss.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has invited US vice-president Mike Pence to visit Australia “as soon as possible.”

FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop says she wouldn’t characterise the US refugee deal with Australia as a “people swap” despite suggestions Australia won’t take Costa Rica refugees unless America takes our asylum seekers.

MORE than 200 police have responded to reports of a gunman in a Houston, Texas, hospital. But no evidence of a shooter — or a shooting — has been found.