ABC新闻:澳大利亚创高温记录 特朗普成为美国史上第三位被弹劾总统

Fresh off the back of Australia's hottest day on record, authorities are warning it might not be long until that milestone is broken again. Australia registered a maximum average temperature of 40.9 degrees on Tuesday, smashing the previous record. Temperatures are expected to remain above 45 degrees in multiple towns today. Sydney is facing a day of devastating conditions, with thick smoke, high winds and rising temperatures likely to fan bushfires.
A controversial plan to explore for oil in the Great Australian Bight is a step closer, after a norwegian oil company's environmental plan was approved. Australia's national offshore petroleum regulator has accepted Equinor's plan to drill a well off the South Australian coast. Drilling in the bight has been fiercely opposed by environmental groups.
Donald Trump has become just the third president of the United States to be impeached. After 10 hours of debate the house of representatives —lawmakers there — voted mostly along party lines to charge Mr Trump. The two charges are for abuse of power in his attempt to persade Ukraine to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden and obstructing Congress.

China's ambassador to Australia has dismissed as 'fake news' international concerns about his country's persecution of an ethnic minority group. United Nations experts and human rights organisations estimate more than a million people have been detained in China's north-west, most of them ethnic Uyghurs who practice Islam. China's ambassador in Canberra, says there has been a security crack-down, but denies there are mass detentions of Uyghurs.