SCORES of bodies, presumably of African migrants, washed ashore in Libya, in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea, Libya’s Red Crescent spokesman said on Tuesday.

ANDY Albertson’s nickname at high school was “Andyopolis” because his classmates thought he was so overweight he could be his own city.

FRANCE’S far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused to don a headscarf for a meeting with Lebanon’s top Sunni Muslim cleric on Tuesday and walked away from the scheduled appointment after a brief squabble at the entrance.

AS WE speak, our global leaders are grappling with some pretty important stuff.

AUSTRALIA must stand up to our allies and show greater leadership on vital global issues.

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.

A DALLAS teacher who was fired when her past as a pornographic actress was exposed on social media says she was a teenage victim of “sex slavery” and that she wants her teaching job back.

MILO Yiannopoulos, the pin-up boy of the United States’ alt-right political movement, has been forced to resign after defending paedophilia.

THE fiance of a famous British children’s author has been convicted of killing her and dumping her body in a cesspool in a financially motivated murder.

THE fiance of a famous British children’s author has been convicted of killing her and dumping her body in a cesspool in a financially motivated murder.

THEY say timing is everything. And that could not be more true for New York-based Sydney model Ethan Turnbull.