Donald Trump didn't mince his words during a call with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull earlier this year, telling the him that their conversation was "ridiculous" while comparing it to the "pleasant" talk he had with Vladimir Putin, according to a leaked transcript.

Details of the transcript, obtained by the Washington Post, include information on the call between the two leaders on January 28.

While speaking to Turnbull about a deal for the US to take in refugees from Australia - which was agreed by the Obama administration - Trump had no problem expressing his true feelings on the matter.

"I have had it," Trump told Turnbull. "I have been making these calls all day, and this is the most unpleasant call all day."

A New Jersey hospital and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield are recruiting volunteers to have an RFID device implanted under their skin that can be used to monitor medical and family contact information.

Hackensack University Medical Center and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey are recruiting volunteers to have an RFID device implanted under the skin.

The chips, made by VeriChip Corporation, will contain a 16-digit identifying number that can be used to bring up medical and family contact information stored electronically in a database.

The chips will be tested in patients with chronic conditions who are more likely to need care in hospital emergency rooms.

The latest emails obtained from the private account of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin contain four documents with classification marks and further proof of improper ties with the Clinton Foundation, says the group that received them.

On Wednesday, Judicial Watch released 1,600-plus pages of emails that the State Department had to turn over under the group's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The documents include 91 email exchanges that were not previously turned over to the State Department, for a total of 530 emails that were not included in Clinton's initial 55,000-page disclosure.

"Pay to play, classified information mishandling, influence peddling, cover-ups - these new emails show why the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's conduct must be resumed," said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.

New emails from former Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin, released by Judicial Watch, show more examples of Abedin using a non-secure account and server to transmit classified information.

According to a statement released by Judicial Watch, the new release shows there were a total of 530 emails that were not a part of the batch Hillary Clinton turned over to the State Department that she claimed represented all her emails from the Clinton.com account maintained by an unsecure, private server.

A number of the emails released today by Judicial Watch show emails that were or have been marked classified that were forwarded to Abedin's account.

The watchdog group also said several emails in the newly released batch show Clinton using her official position as secretary of state to trade favors and to provide influence to donors to the Clinton campaign and donors to the Clinton Foundation.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia stands accused by the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) of a stupefying 53,700 violations of money laundering and counter-terrorism-financing laws, in which the financial institution failed to notify in a timely fashion - and, sometimes, not at all - transactions topping a mountainous A$77 million.

As the case unfolds, it should be noted, each breach of the act carries a jaw-dropping potential penalty of A$18 million - meaning Commonwealth Bank could be slapped with an astonishing level of fines.

Alleging 'serious and systemic non-compliance' with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act), the regulator commenced civil penalties proceedings against CommBank on Thursday, after the tentative conclusion of an investigation - the heft of which focused on the bank's use of intelligent deposit machines (IDMs) - revealed rampant breaches of the act, according to acting CEO Peter Clark.

The latest round of US sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea are supposed to be a militant punitive measure designed to hurt three very different economies, though economies that in various ways have all learned to become increasingly self-sufficient over the years. Far from turning the economies of the aforementioned countries into 1990s Iraq, something very different is happening.

The real consequences of the sanctions are largely unintended from an official American point of view, even though in reality, the sanctions were all about Congress trying to limit the authority and slam the credibility of Donald Trump. This helps explain why few people in America have considered the following, although some voices outside of the Washington elite have voiced important concerns.

The United States warned a takeover of rebel-held northwestern Idlib province by Syrian militants linked to a former al-Qaeda affiliate would have grave consequences and make it difficult to dissuade Russia from renewing bombing that recently stopped.

In an online letter posted late on Wednesday, the top State Department official in charge of Syria policy, Michael Ratney, said the recent offensive by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, spearheaded by former al-Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front (which now calls itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham) had cemented its grip on the province and put "the future of northern Syria in big danger."

"The north of Syria witnessed one of its biggest tragedies," said Ratney who was behind secret talks in Amman with Moscow over the ceasefire in southwest Syria announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in July. It was the first such U.S.-Russian effort under the Trump administration to end Syria's civil war.

Natural resources, or commodities, are the raw inputs that are used to manufacture and produce all of the products in the world. Commodities themselves, which include those extracted from the earth and those that have yet to be extracted, are worth trillions of dollars. Here are the top 10 countries with the most natural resources, the resources they have and their total estimated value.

10: Venezuela

This South American country has an estimated $14.3 trillion worth of natural resources. The country's main resources are iron, natural gas and oil. This country ranks eighth in the world for natural gas reserves, accounting for 2.7% of the global supply, and ranks sixth in oil reserves, accounting for 7.4% of the global supply. Venezuela is about the same size as Texas.

9: Iraq

Number nine on the list is Iraq, which holds an estimated $15.9 trillion worth of natural resources. The country has 9% of the total world's oil deposits, accounting for most of its resources. Iraq is also among the top countries for reserves of phosphate rock. This country is about the same size as California.

US President Donald Trump poses a risk both to his own country and the rest of the world, the German Social Democrats' candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz, said, also accusing the Republican leader of oversimplifying complex political issues.

"It was obvious for me that the solemn atmosphere of the White House would not civilize Trump," Schulz, a former longtime president of the European Parliament, told the German Der Spiegel weekly, adding that the US president had exceeded his worst expectations.

The candidate for the chancellorship particularly criticized what he called Trump's "ruthless nepotism" which he said is manifested in the US president's habit of "putting his family above the law."

He went on to say that Trump reduces "complex political decisions to just 140 printed characters."

"I really believe that reducing politics to a tweet is dangerous for a US president," Schulz told Der Spiegel, adding that "Trump is a risk for his land and the whole world."

At the same time, Schulz said he would be quite capable of dealing with Trump if elected chancellor. "People like Trump eventually need the same thing they spread themselves: clear messages," he said, adding that he would "confront [Trump] as clearly and intelligibly as possible."

"A German head of government has not only the right but the duty to do that," Schulz told the newspaper.

"Trump believes that politics is a boxing ring. It is not, however. Though it is not the case, politics still sometimes needs clear words," he said, citing the example of former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who "unambiguously said no to a US president"in case of the "invasion to Iraq, which was contrary to the international law."

Schulz also said he would be better at dealing with Trump than current German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who seeks to remain in the post following the parliamentary elections scheduled for September.

Merkel sharply criticized Trump following his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. "The decision of the US president to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is very regrettable, and I'm expressing myself in a very reserved way when I say that," she said following the US pullout.

In May, she also said that "Europeans must really take [their] destiny into [their] own hands" as they could not "completely depend on others," apparently referring to the US.

Merkel 'neglects her duty' as chancellor - Schulz

The Social Democrats' candidate did not stop at claiming Merkel is incapable of dealing with Trump, also accusing her of neglecting her duty to voters and an inability to resolve the pressing issues German faces.

To win elections, politicians have to "come up with better proposals for the future of this country" than their political rivals, Schulz said, adding that it is not such a difficult task under the current circumstances, as "the person that currently hold the [chancellor's] office makes no [proposals] at all."

"A chancellor who does not tell the voters anything about her plans, neglects her duty and puts the future of our country at risk," he added.

Schulz also called Merkel "a professional in putting problems on the back burner" by saying that she "did not say a word"about "tattered schools, the suffering of refugees, tax evasion, the financial and banking crisis, the reform of EU institutions and attacks on democracy in Poland and Hungary."

"She even had the nerve to say that she intends to deal with Europe only after the elections. That is really daring," he added.

He also said that, even though the general situation in Germany is relatively good, "the life of many Germans is far from good." Merkel should address the issues that concern these people, Schulz said, adding that she "apparently lacks courage and skill" to do that.

With the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 24, Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party still leads in the polls, offering her a chance to be re-elected for a fourth term.

According to a poll conducted by the Kantar Emnid public opinion research center in late July, the CDU enjoys 38 percent of public support and is followed by the Social Democrats, who have the support of 24 percent of voters. All other major German parties, including the Free Democrats, the AfD as well as the Left and the Green Party, lag far behind with between 8 and 9 percent of public support on average.

In February 2014, a United States-sponsored coup was initiated in the Ukraine in which President Viktor Yanukovych was illegally ousted from power. Over three years later, the putsch has done nothing but plunge the Ukraine, a tortured country plundered throughout modern history (by the West), into another abyss. In a 2015 interview with CNN, then US president Barack Obama openly confessed that "we had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine".

Around 10,000 people have been killed in the time since, with the conflict generating 2.5 million refugees who relocated to Russia. The putsch led to Crimea's annexation a month after the coup, with a 96% vote in favour of joining the Russian Federation - the majority of Crimeans already considered themselves ethnic Russians.

The Western-backed government, led by billionaire Petro Poroshenko, has been riddled with corruption and sees meagre support from the Ukrainian people. Just 1.9% fully trust Poroshenko personally, according to an unreported survey conducted in June. Poroshenko's dismal backing is hardly surprising considering the disastrous economic conditions millions are enduring in the country. What's more, the 2014 coup has led to an unseemly rise in far-right groups.