Scott Morrison to become Australia's new PM

Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison will become Australia’s new Prime Minister after winning a Liberal party leadership vote on Friday.   

Mr Morrison, won an internal ballot 45-40 over former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. 

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull did not contest the party ballot as he was  under pressure from poor polling, a looming election, and a revolt by conservative MPs. Josh Frydenberg, the environment and energy minister, was selected as deputy Liberal leader.

The Liberal party is the senior partner in the ruling conservative coalition that will face an election by May 2019. 

US President Trump warns his



impeachment would damage American economy 

United States President Donald Trump has said that the US economy would collapse if he was impeached. 

In a TV interview aired yesterday, the US President was responding to a question on his mounting legal woes after his former attorney Michael Cohen said under oath that Mr Trump instructed him to commit a felony by breaking US campaign finance laws.

The US president then launched into a rambling statement on job creation and other economic progress he said had been made during his presidency and insisted Americans would be much worse off if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election.