What was set to be a record-breaking dry summer across swaths of inland Australia has ended in dramatic fashion, with a torrential downpour bringing widespread flooding in the final days of summer.

Readers argue that house prices will remain unaffordable until the government reduces the tax relief investors receive.

Trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States could move to a fourth round in Geneva this week, the Russian state news agency TASS is reporting, citing an unnamed source in Moscow.