Europe

Pope Leo XIV is willing to host the next round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia at the Vatican, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says.

Controversial actor Kevin Spacey is set to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival despite being hit with new sexual misconduct claims.

LATIKA M BOURKE: In an exclusive interview, Australia’s man in the Vatican, former LNP MP Keith Pitt said the PM’s attendance in Rome was vital.

The call from Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was detained by Iran for three years, came after the Australian teacher was jailed for fighting alongside Ukraine.

Russia launched its largest drone strike on Ukraine since the war began as Ukraine President Zelensky sat down with US Vice President Vance in Rome.

‘I spoke to him about my mother’: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has given a given a candid account of his conversation with Pope Leo XIV in Rome.

Europe wants a major strategic partnership with Australia but the PM is playing down the prospect of a giant defence trade deal.

‘We’re all tired, we want to go home. But we want to take all of the regions, so that we don’t have to struggle for them in the future.’

The winner of the 2025 Eurovision Song Content has been crowned in dramatic scenes, with the location for the world’s biggest music competition in 2026 now revealed.

SPOILER ALERT: The Eurovision Song Content has crowned a winner in Basel, Switzerland, with one of hottest favourites falling flat to a shock winner.

US President Donald Trump says he will speak first with Russian President Vladimir Putin by telephone and then with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the latest move to end war.

A second man has been arrested in connection with a series of arson attacks linked to properties owned by United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Eight people have died, with at least five others seriously injured, after a Russian airstrike on a civilian bus in Ukraine. 

A captured Australian fighter jailed for 13 years by Russian forces should be given full protections afforded to prisoners of war, the government says.

The first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine since the early weeks of the war lasted just two hours, with shocking comments made about people at the table losing ‘even more of their loved ones’.