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Australians will go to the polls on 2 July, after the Governor-General accepted Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's request for a double dissolution election.

The Australian Prime Minister has called on the Governor-General to request a 2 July election.

ANALYSIS: Donald Trump crushed Ted Cruz in the Indiana primary and left him no feasible way to the nomination. Phil Smith maps the Senator's decline and fall. Video

Ted Cruz has dropped out of the Republican race for the US presidency, after Donald Trump thumped him in the Indiana primary.

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has called his rival Donald Trump a "pathological liar", after he accused his father of being connected to the assassination of JFK.

Leicester City's Jamie Vardy has been voted Player of the Year by the Football Writers' Association.

A new poll shows more than two-thirds of New Zealanders are opposed to multinational companies dodging tax by shifting profits offshore.

Texas senator Ted Cruz is the man who hopes to capitalise if Donald Trump fails to get the Republican presidential nomination.

ANALYSIS: The crazy US presidential primary season is now into its third act and shows no sign of slowing down or maturing, writes Phil Smith.

More than half of New Zealanders are worried about the country being a tax haven after the Panama Papers leak, according to a new poll.

Presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are expected to extend their leads when voters in five north-eastern American states cast ballots today.

Donald Trump says a pact formed by his two rivals for the Republican presidential crown is a desperate act. Audio

Online poll results suggest Māori living in cities might be missing out on support, the National Urban Māori Authority says.

The American Samoa governor Lolo Moliga has set up an agency to look at constitutional issues that could go to a vote at this year's election, or in subsequent polls.

ANALYSIS: It's possible that Donald Trump has decided he would actually like to win, writes Phil Smith.

An African-American woman is to appear on the American currency for the first time.

Online voting at this year's local government elections won't go ahead due to uncertainties around how secure it would be. Audio

Australians will likely go to the polls in a double-dissolution election on 2 July, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed.

Australia will likely head to the polls after the federal upper house voted down legislation aimed at policing construction industry unions.

Less than six years into the life of the country's biggest local body, Aucklanders are being asked for new ideas on the way the city is governed.