The White House is supporting forensic analysis of the signature on a letter purportedly given by Donald Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that Trump's aides say isn't the president's.

As two families prepare funerals for their young sons, a Melbourne community has been left searching for answers to stop the bloodshed.

Israel has launched an airstrike against the leaders of arch foe Hamas in Qatar, expanding its wide-ranging military actions in the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where the Palestinian Islamist group has long had its political base.

The Murdoch family has reached a deal that will see Rupert Murdoch's politically conservative eldest son Lachlan Murdoch cement control of the family media empire.

France's parliament has brought down the government, deepening a political crisis that is weakening the euro zone's second-largest economy.