
Australian accountant Sabirhan Hasanoff had a good life before he "threw that all away" and became a jihadist.For the first time since …

Police are searching for a man after a double stabbing on Queensland's Gold Coast.…

South Sydney prop George Burgess has been suspended for two matches and fined $10,000 by the NRL after admitting to damaging …

Three men have each been jailed for three years for what has been described as a bizarre attack on a Broome man last year.…

Police on Queensland's Gold Coast say a string of incidents involving suspicious devices could be the work of a lone "disgrun…

A gas leak in the Perth suburb of Claremont has forced the evacuation of Methodist Ladies College with students sent home ear…

Two men have been taken to hospital after a serious traffic crash on the South Western Highway.…

The WA Supreme Court has heard that former MP Adele Carles wants to include a millionaire property developer in the defamatio…

St Kilda AFL player Stephen Milne has been charged with rape over an incident that allegedly occurred in 2004.Victoria Police…

A prominent criminal lawyer has appeared in court in Hobart accused of stealing thousands of dollars from his former firm.…

A string of violent sex offences spanning more than two decades have put Adrian Ernest Bayley in and out of jail most of his …

In the hours before he was found unconscious in a washing machine with his dead pet cat, toddler Sean Murphy was heard crying…

Police are investigating a home invasion in Sydney's inner west this morning where two women were tied up and a man was stabb…

Texas Gov. Rick Perry extolled the tax policies and regulatory climate of his state as he courted Connecticut gun manufactur…

The announcement NSW's last major port is being sold-off by the state government has sparked claims from Labor it will devast…

Thousands of fans brought Times Square to a standstill as they waited to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt at his premiere for "W…

Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday as investors watched for signs of a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Fed…

The Federal Group is considering hiring armed guards.…

Senior federal ministers have rallied behind Prime Minister Julia Gillard as MPs begin the final sittings of Parliament befor…

A Senate inquiry has heard extraordinary allegations that Tasmanian forestry contractors who were paid by the Government to l…

A western Queensland drover says history will be made when 18,000 cattle are walked from Queensland to New South Wales over t…

A fire at the headquarters of collapsed Tasmanian timber company Gunns is being treated as suspicious.…

A Tasmanian woman who sustained a head injury that left her speaking with what sounds like a French accent says the rare cond…

Tasmania Police have not ruled out alcohol as a factor in a fatal collision in the state's south.…

A $10,000 reward has been posted by hoteliers over an armed robbery at a hotel in Hobart's northern suburbs.…

The Queensland Coroner has found a police officer acted reasonably when he shot a man dead in Brisbane last year.…

A man has been rescued from floodwaters in the Aberfeldy area of Gippsland. SES and police secured the man with a line to pr…

Former abattoir worker Malcolm Naden has been jailed for life without parole for the brutal murders of two women. Naden was …

Seven people injured in a gas explosion at a service station south of Hobart have been released from hospital. Police say pe…

The Victorian Government says it is confident frontline police services will not be affected by the latest round of public se…

A man jailed for the deaths of six teenagers in a car crash in north-western Victoria has been released on parole after servi…

Up to 100 homes near Victoria's Traralgon Creek are facing flooding and residents have been told to evacuate.…

Australian doctors say they have perfected a procedure which stops life-threatening complications in patients with type 1 dia…

The disappearance of Liberal party candidate and anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay from the New South Wales city of Griffit…

Residents in Traralgon are being told to prepare to evacuate as heavy rain continues to fall across much of Gippsland. Rainf…

Two New South Wales farming families have become caught up in the investigation into one of the biggest murder mysteries in A…
Around 100 Lisa Ho staff will lose their jobs after the fashion label announced it was closing down.It comes after the high-end clothes…

A consumer fraud forum in Melbourne has been told online shopping licences for people who wish to purchase goods on the inter…

The State Government says the latest report on local content shows more than 100,000 jobs have been created in the resources …

A further cut to the Reserve Bank of Australia's cash rate could still be on the cards as the economy undergoes a transition.…

Texas Gov. Rick Perry extolled the tax policies and regulatory climate of his state as he courted Connecticut gun manufactur…

Shares were mixed in Asia on Tuesday as investors watched for signs of a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Fed…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneur…

Los Angeles port officials on Monday unveiled plans to create a $500 million marine research center called AltaSea. The proj…

Wild celebrations broke out on Tehran streets that were battlefields four years ago as reformist-backed Hasan Rowhani capped…

The chairman of Australia's peak retail body has launched a strongly worded attack on critics of Australia's biggest retailer…

Angry tourism workers and activists in Luxor threatened Monday to block a newly appointed Islamist governor from his office …

Holden workers in South Australia have been called to a meeting with senior management.The Australian Manufacturing Workers U…

Developer Lend Lease has reassured investors its earnings will grow this financial year despite a restructure to deal with a …

MILK MONEY: Approval of the farm bill — and the cost of a gallon of milk — could hinge on a proposed new dairy program th…

The Australian share market has shrugged off positive leads from overseas to fall moderately in early trade.…

The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. Whe…

More than 200 Victorians have filed complaints about their insurance companies not passing on savings from the removal of the…

The east wing of Brisbane's Wesley Hospital has been cleared of legionella bacteria.…

Darwin City Council has had to go to great lengths to get a lawn mowed.…
The body representing the interests of hunters has been handed a $1.7 million funding increase in the NSW budget.Funding for the NSW Ga…

The WA Supreme Court has heard that former MP Adele Carles wants to include a millionaire property developer in the defamatio…

The State Government says the latest report on local content shows more than 100,000 jobs have been created in the resources …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry extolled the tax policies and regulatory climate of his state as he courted Connecticut gun manufactur…

The first Budget Estimates hearings facing the Country Liberals Government since it won office promise to be long and bruisin…

South Australia's Opposition Liberals will set up a productivity commission if they win the state election next March. Leade…

The announcement NSW's last major port is being sold-off by the state government has sparked claims from Labor it will devast…

Wild celebrations broke out on Tehran streets that were battlefields four years ago as reformist-backed Hasan Rowhani capped…

The Queensland premier has again denied knowing anything about an alleged bid to get a sitting MP to give up his seat.Premier…

The Prime Minister has told Labor MPs to put purpose ahead of self-interest as one of her strongest supporters, former minist…

Outgoing Labor MP Nicola Roxon has praised Julia Gillard as an amazing prime minister, saying the party has let internal divi…

The Australian Defence Force is investigating claims soldiers in north Queensland posted derogatory comments about women on s…

Mining billionaire and Palmer United Party founder Clive Palmer says The Australian has printed information that was stolen f…

More than 200 Victorians have filed complaints about their insurance companies not passing on savings from the removal of the…

The federal opposition is furious the government is giving supporters of the constitutional recognition for local government …

The State Opposition has raised concerns about plans to sell off aged care beds in Melbourne.…

The body representing the interests of hunters has been handed a $1.7 million funding increase in the NSW budget.Funding for …

Around 100 Lisa Ho staff will lose their jobs after the fashion label announced it was closing down.It comes after the high-e…

In a further sign technology is changing the way we speak, the social networking term `tweet' has entered the English Oxford …

Angry tourism workers and activists in Luxor threatened Monday to block a newly appointed Islamist governor from his office …

Hawthorn captain Luke Hodge will contest his rough conduct charge at the AFL tribunal, risking his appearance in Friday night…

The east wing of Brisbane's Wesley Hospital has been cleared of legionella bacteria.…

A consumer fraud forum in Melbourne has been told online shopping licences for people who wish to purchase goods on the inter…

Thousands of fans brought Times Square to a standstill as they waited to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt at his premiere for "W…

As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst out in applause. They do that for nearly eve…

Brad Marchand is known in Boston as the "Little Ball of Hate," a nickname that captures his stature — he's listed at 5-foo…

Darwin City Council has had to go to great lengths to get a lawn mowed.…

The State Government says the latest report on local content shows more than 100,000 jobs have been created in the resources …

Katy Perry 'goes there' with Vogue about two of her high-profile relationships, as the magazine's July cover story. The sing…

Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in …
In a further sign technology is changing the way we speak, the social networking term `tweet' has entered the English Oxford Dictionary…

Thousands of fans brought Times Square to a standstill as they waited to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt at his premiere for "W…

Katy Perry 'goes there' with Vogue about two of her high-profile relationships, as the magazine's July cover story. The sing…

The Voice is no longer the king of Australian reality TV.While the naming of Harrison Craig as the second season winner of Th…

More than 100,000 people took to the streets in largely peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations th…

British police are investigating newspaper photos that show art collector Charles Saatchi grasping the throat of his wife, c…

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the bigges…

The promoter of Michael Jackson's ill-fated series of comeback shows created a conflict of interest with the singer's physic…

They practice in the back of a dance studio next to a Wendy's restaurant in a strip mall. Six ballet dancers leap across the…

Across the dizzying, colorful show floor at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where pla…

Victorian teenager Harrison Craig has been crowned the winner of The Voice, delivering the reality show with another feel-goo…

Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company describe…

Airbus and Boeing won pledges for big purchases of their lucrative long-haul wide-body jets at the Paris Air Show Monday, ra…

Jay-Z is teaming up with Samsung to release his new album, unveiling a three-minute commercial during the NBA Finals on Sund…

Win or lose, Sunday marked the final home game of this season for the Spurs. The series shifts back to Miami for Game 6 on T…

Behind the reality show battle lines, a quiet Sunday night war has been raging between rival dramas A Place To Call Home and …

It looks to be a baby girl for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Or does it? The couple was keeping silent Sunday in the wake o…

"Man of Steel" leaped over box office expectations in a single weekend. The Warner Bros. superhero film earned $113 million …

Angry tourism workers and activists in Luxor threatened Monday to block a newly appointed Islamist governor from his office …

A Christian lobby group is outraged that a strip club billboard has reappeared near schools in Brisbane.Earlier this year, th…
The east wing of Brisbane's Wesley Hospital has been cleared of legionella bacteria.…

The State Opposition has raised concerns about plans to sell off aged care beds in Melbourne.…

Danielle Powell was going through a hard time in the spring of 2011, just months away from graduating from a conservative Ch…

Dozens of children at the National Constitution Center craned their necks in unison Friday and began cheering as five skydiv…

The cost of street parking in the Adelaide CBD might rise sharply under a City Council plan.…

Hundreds of Danish mothers have held a breastfeeding protest outside Copenhagen's City Hall after customers at a cafe told a…

For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one…

As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst out in applause. They do that for nearly eve…

British police are investigating newspaper photos that show art collector Charles Saatchi grasping the throat of his wife, c…

Here's the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection. When stretching out the dough for its premium "Arti…

For the first time in seven years, most U.S. homebuilders are optimistic about home sales, a sign that construction could hel…

President Barack Obama says being a father is the best job he's got. Obama says a Father's Day luncheon at the White House o…

Across the dizzying, colorful show floor at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where pla…

Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in …

Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the im…

Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government's newly exposed secret surveillance programs have b…

The east wing of Brisbane's Wesley Hospital has been cleared of legionella bacteria.…

Los Angeles port officials on Monday unveiled plans to create a $500 million marine research center called AltaSea. The proj…

Victorian children with once incurable cancers will benefit most from a new $4.5m machine bought to boost research into the d…

Researchers have found 280 new craters on the Moon by combining data about its gravity and surface for the first time.…

The Northern Territory Government is promising "better quality" parking at Royal Darwin Hospital hospital when it begins char…

The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. Whe…

The union representing CSIRO staff believes 18 Hobart-based staff are set to lose their jobs.…

Health authorities are screening all children on Saibai Island in the Torres Strait, off far north Queensland, to try and con…

A feasibility study has found a new abattoir could be built on King Island for $30 million.…

Queensland's chief health officer Jeannette Young says new strategies will be rolled out over coming months to get more child…

Officials could learn on Tuesday if Brisbane's Wesley hospital can begin accepting new patients after an outbreak of legionna…

There's a lot of buzz at Washington State University over work to develop the first sperm bank for honeybees. Entomologist S…

By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her pare…

They are calling it the `Angelina effect' - the massive increase in the number of women ringing helplines for advice on breas…
A consumer fraud forum in Melbourne has been told online shopping licences for people who wish to purchase goods on the internet could …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneur…

The plane parked outside the airport looks more like a giant exotic insect or maybe an outsized balsa wood toy airplane. Whe…

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search lead…

Across the dizzying, colorful show floor at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where pla…

The Guardian newspaper says the British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and email…

Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in …

Top officials from the Obama and Bush administrations say the government's newly exposed secret surveillance programs have b…

Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended…

Netflix said Monday that it would offer new TV shows from DreamWorks Animation starting in 2014 in what the company describe…

A parliamentary committee overseeing the national broadband network rollout has recommended NBN Co prepare strategies in the …

If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or …

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the …

Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug…

New York to Chicago, in five weeks? Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles…

The Paris Air Show, which opens for business on Monday, brings hundreds of aircraft to the skies around the French capital, …

Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered…

The government's massive collection of Americans' phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups…

As soon as the decades-old Twin Otter landed at Lukla airport, passengers burst out in applause. They do that for nearly eve…

Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in …
Angry tourism workers and activists in Luxor threatened Monday to block a newly appointed Islamist governor from his office because of…

From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millio…

Welsh star Leigh Halfpenny scored two tries and kicked 20 points in a flawless display as the British and Irish Lions defeat…

After years of gridlock, this may be the moment when Congress at last does something about the millions of immigrants living…

Airbus sent a new wide-body plane into the skies Friday that sets the stage for intensifying competition with U.S. rival Boe…

Two 10th century Cambodian stone statues displayed for nearly two decades at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art were retu…

America's biggest theme parks will pack in around 120 million people this year. That's a lot of standing in long lines for ro…

The Vatican put a new coin on sale last week to commemorate its historic papal transition. Too bad overseas collectors won't…

After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) of coastline, t…

British officials are hoping that the impending royal birth will produce a bouncing baby buoy for the economy. With the Duch…

From blockbuster movies to hit TV shows to greater Olympic exposure, archery seems to be hitting all the right targets. Elit…

Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington's National Mall that will document African-America…

Boeing predicted that the number of commercial aircraft in operation globally will double in the next two decades, with the …

France's main airports have cut their flight timetables in half to cope with a three-day strike by air traffic controllers. …

The action at the Confederations Cup will go from the nation's capital to the coastal cities in the northeast to the beaches…

A tourist from northwest Ohio says actor John Malkovich played a starring role in rescuing him when he fell and gashed his t…
Hawthorn captain Luke Hodge will contest his rough conduct charge at the AFL tribunal, risking his appearance in Friday night's clash w…

Brad Marchand is known in Boston as the "Little Ball of Hate," a nickname that captures his stature — he's listed at 5-foo…

Tuukka Rask shut out the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night and got enough help from the…

Certain players from the defeated Champions Trophy squad will join up with Australia A on Tuesday to maximise preparation tim…

Brisbane Lion Sam Mayes has been named round 12's AFL Rising Star nominee.Mayes was among Brisbane's best in their loss to Fr…

Nathan Merritt admits he'd virtually given up all hope of ever playing for NSW before receiving a phone call from Blues coach…

The NRL's new integrity unit is investigating claims of racism during Manly's clash with Canterbury, including claims that Ma…

South Sydney Rabbitohs prop George Burgess has been charged with two counts of wilful damage to a car following an incident i…

Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews got another victory on Friday. The trophy he wants the most is still up for grabs. Toews w…

Riddick Bowe now understands why people warned him that Muay Thai is a dangerous sport. "I would have to say, they have a va…

Much as they would love to get big contributions from Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, the Chicago Blackhawks have shown the…

NSW back-rower Greg Bird fears referees will be placed under greater pressure in State of Origin matches following the NRL's …

The NCAA hearings to determine if the University of Miami committed major infractions involving former booster Nevin Shapiro…

NSW Origin winger Blake Ferguson has been formally charged with indecent assault and will face court in July.…

A high school football player convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party last summer was given the…

Samantha Stosur is targeting some rare success on grass in a bid to arrest a worrying rankings slide that threatens to hinder…

He will be his fierce opponent in State of Origin next week but Ryan Hoffman is the player Melbourne NRL skipper Cameron Smit…








