Roger Shepherd is taking the first group of foreigners to Mount Paektu, a large volcano near the border with China.
There have been grumbles about the Liberals' direction under Mr Turnbull.
The 149 people, including women and children, were taken from a convoy of buses.
More than 41,000 measles cases were reported in the region during the first half of the year - more than in all 12-month periods so far this decade
The tourist hot spot was recovering from a quake earlier this month.
No one was injured after four to five rounds were fired from a moving white car early today.
Donald Trump's personal attorney says it's "silly" to say the president should testify to the Russia inquiry.
The PM conceded that he could not get legislation through the House.
The blaze happened in Melbourne last night.
Labor has written to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.
Gitta Scheenhouwer, 27, was fatally run over on August 12.
Strong winds and warm weather are ahead, with a number of fires still burning out of control.
Hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1000 children.
The victim tried to get a nurse with the call button, but it was unplugged.
The decision was based on privacy, safety and security, says official.
Growth of alternatives to petroleum, especially fracking, has reduced the need for imported oil.
The woman fell from the Norwegian Star cruise ship about 95km off Croatia's coast.
Instructor Inaki Aizpun came across the two-metre grey nurse shark while diving in Byron Bay.
More than 300 people have died and 300,000 are displaced in the worst flooding in a century.
The archbishop of Dublin said he hopes Pope Francis will speak about the "darkness" of priestly sex abuse
Over 350 people have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state.
The girl had run over another officer, leaving him with serious injuries.
The island is trying to recover from a quake earlier this month that killed 460 people.
Four more bodies have been recovered and a man has died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 43.
A police body camera rolled as to officers in Alabama raced against time to save someone trapped inside.
He was one of two division one winners in the $110m draw.
They call it death plunge diving, but today's final in Oslo looked more like a belly flopping contest.
Maria del Carmen Venegas and her husband were on the way to hospital.
The quake in the Pacific Ocean is not expected to spark a tsunami because it was too deep.
The 47-year-old man was arrested at at the Southers Marsh Golf Club and charged with mayhem.
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