Big bad John. He was a former Deputy PM from somewhere 'up norf. He left politics shortly after belting a protestor who threw a rotten egg at him. Now he's back to add colour to UK politics.

Christine Milne, the Greens leader, is taking a bit of a hammering on Facebook for her comments on Tony Abbott’s national security address.

In America, all it takes is an injunction from a federal judge to stop the President in his tracks. As Richard Kazimer explains, Obama has a fight to progress his immigration policy.

Prime Minister Abbott has played the fear card, but his National Security Address fell a little flat. What he needed was a dramatic music backing.

The UK's Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman is rumoured to have described a Labour councillor as being "too pretty" for politics.