China’s President Xi Jinping can beat Donald Trump at his own game.

It’s chess,not checkers:China can play the long game against Trump

Donald Trump thinks trade is a zero-sum game. Xi Jinping appears happy to wait for the trade war to backfire on the US president.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Donald Trump 100 days explainer.

Order 142 and counting:How Trump has used his pen to change America in 100 days

It is the most consequential start of a term of any American presidency,with Donald Trump taking direct aim at law,media,public health and culture.

A runaway kangaroo named Sheila shut down a stretch of highway in Alabama before state troopers and the animal’s owner captured her.

‘Is that a kangaroo?’:Runaway Sheila causes chaos on US highway

The escaped pet was spotted hopping along the road,stunning locals and snarling traffic as state troopers were forced to shut down both sides of Alabama Interstate 85.

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“They are calling”:Donald Trump acknowledged the Australian government was trying to reach him.

‘They are calling’:Trump confirms Albanese has been trying to speak to him

US President Donald Trump is aware the Australian government has been trying to contact him to discuss tariffs,hinting that he will talk to the prime minister.

  • Michael Koziol
Amber Wheeler colours client Whitney Barnes’ hair in her salon,Steel Magnolia,in the Kentucky town of Magnolia.

The world is consumed by Trump’s chaos. In MAGA heartland,they’ve barely noticed

Polls show the president has lost his sheen. But from “Hog’s Haven” to a hair salon in rural Kentucky,Americans who voted for Donald Trump still think he’s their best chance.

  • Michael Koziol
The last three staffers in The Associated Press’ Saigon bureau,reporters Matt Franjola,left,Peter Arnett,rear,and George Esper,second from right,are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and a member of the Viet Cong on the day the government of South Vietnam surrendered,April 30,1975. One of the soldiers is showing Esper the route of his final advance into the city.

How a can of Coke and day-old cake led to iconic photo that went around the world

Peter Arnett and his colleagues had watched the last of the US Marines flee in a helicopter. Then they heard a telltale squeak in the stairs outside their office.

  • David Rising andValerie Komor
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Anchorage and the mountains beyond.

Port guide:Anchorage,Alaska

The wild,remote location of Anchorage is exhilarating,but so too is the discovery of a sophisticated city with great dining and museums and friendly people.

  • Brian Johnston
Donald Trump after signing an executive order for 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

Trump wants to unleash more US gas. This Australian energy giant will help sell it

Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer has signed off on building a $27 billion project that will liquefy more US gas and ship it to the rest of the world.

  • Nick Toscano
An aircraft takes off from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa on March 15.

The $93m parking mistake:Fighter jet falls off aircraft carrier

Sailors were towing the F/A-18 fighter jet into the hangar bay when they lost control of the aircraft.

  • Lolita Baldor
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.

How Peter Navarro went from Democrat to inmate to Trump’s tariff guru

The man behind the US president’s tumultuous tariff policies has sought for decades to set off the ultimate trade war with China.

  • Michael Kranish andJeff Stein