World News Update, what you need to know

Australia's entrant in Eurovision, Dami Im, is through to the final of the song contest in Stockholm after performing her power ballad Sound of Silence.

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BRASILIA - Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vowed to fight to prove her innocence after the Senate voted to put her on trial for breaking budget laws.

WASHINGTON - Presumptive Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan have emerged from a meeting declaring they had taken steps toward healing fissures in the party but that differences remained.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has said he is willing to create a commission to study whether women can be deacons in the Catholic Church, signalling an openness to letting women serve in ordained ministry currently reserved to men.

MIAMI - An online gun auction website says that it wants no part in a plan by the Florida man who shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin - triggering protests across the US - to auction the pistol he used.

LONDON - Portugal, Moldova and Ukraine in Europe, and Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in Asia have emerged as new child sex tourism destinations, prompting activists to call for governments to include measures to protect children in their tourism plans.

LONDON - Britain has stepped back from cutting the size and scope of the BBC.