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The death toll from flooding in eastern Kentucky rose to 37 on Monday (August 1) as more rain hampered recovery operations and possible severe weather overnight threatened to provoke further damage.

Yemen’s warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years.

China furiously condemned the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in 25 years as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the self-ruled island as "one of the freest societies in the world" in a speech to the parliament in Taipei on Wednesday.

A 54-year-old Melbourne father has revealed his attacker was smiling as the man stabbed him twice in the back during a mid-afternoon road rage attack.

United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wanted to make it "unequivocally clear" the US will not abandon Taiwan, after she held talks with the president of the self-ruling island on Wednesday.

Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has refused to answer questions on the donation scandal involving his former chief of staff, Mitch Catlin.

The family of a grandfather who was ambushed and left for dead have said that the killer's jail sentence "won't bring him back".

An elderly cat has remarkably been found alive and well after being missing around Melbourne Airport for 10 days in freezing conditions.