Transnational street gang MS-13 has a presence in Australia, say U.S. authorities who this week indicted 17 alleged members of the gang. New York’s Nassau County ...

Wombats are considered reclusive creatures. They mostly move at night and avoid people as much as possible. Except for one in Canberra, the bush capital of ...

A leading child psychologist in Australia says parents need to be strict on their children’s social media use in the wake of the tragic death of ...

The distraught family of an Australian girl who committed suicide after allegedly being bullied online has pleaded to parents to talk with their children so they ...

People offended by the date of Australia day need to grow up, says an indigenous town councilor from Alice Springs who has joined efforts to voice ...

Someone in Australia won a lottery on Thursday night but have yet to claim their $55 million (US$43.4 million) prize. They may not even know they have ...

A heavy truck took out the inflatable finishing line of a women’s cycling race in South Australia surprising an ABC TV crew who captured the accident ...

Australians have been moved by the death of a 14-year-old girl who had everything to live for. Amy Jayne Everett, affectionately nicknamed Dolly, died on Jan. ...

An American man has died while hiking in central Australia after taking a wrong turn. The 33-year-old hiker from California died on the popular Larapinta Trail, ...

Victoria’s top policeman has rubbished claims that Melbourne isn’t a safe place and said there is no so-called African gang crime crisis in the city. Police ...

A video of a car driver crashing into a cyclist in Brisbane has highlighted tensions over road use in Australia. Cyclist Geoffrey James was riding his ...

A young Australian girl who was once the face of Akubra has taken her own life because of bullying, leaving her family devastated. Amy Everett, nicknamed ...

Lu Yuanfeng fell into a coma and died just three weeks after he’d been released from a prison in China’s northeast. Lu had managed to survive ...

Volunteers have rushed to help thousands of bats affected by a heatwave in parts of the Australian city of Sydney. Large fruit bats – known as ...

A letter written by a 27-year-old Australian woman before she died from a rare form of cancer has touched the hearts of many around the world. ...

Reports of a section of melted highway is symptomatic of the intensity of the heatwave that has hit parts of Australia’s south east. A ten kilometer ...

Evading United Nations sanctions was easy thanks to China, said a North Korean defector who once worked in Office 39, a shady money-making department dedicated to ...

A group of young African men traumatized several people when they went on a violent rampage in Melbourne’s west on Thursday night, Jan.4, further fueling public ...

If Australia was attacked by a foreign power, the country’s defense forces would not last much more than a couple of weeks, a former military official ...

Australians have been undergoing a fall in living standards – the longest in more than 25 years. Many of the country’s citizens appear unsurprised. In an ...

A cruise ship which had some 200 of its passengers knocked about by a gastro bug docked in Brisbane on Thursday, Jan. 4. after a two-week-long ...

Australia’s peak medical body have called for stricter penalties to be applied to new drivers who text or use their mobile phones while driving a vehicle. ...

Several young men have described their attempts to help six people fatally trapped inside the sinking seaplane that crashed into a river north of Sydney on ...

Three people are fighting for their lives after a mass drug overdose affected nine in a rental house in the Australian city of Perth. Medical staff ...

A lone hiker lost for five days in the Australian wilderness has been found in good health, much to the relief of his family. Father of ...

The South Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu has banned unrecyclable plastic bags and polystyrene takeaway boxes in a bid to address growing pollution concerns affecting the ...

Victorian authorities have been too politically correct in dealing with youth crime in Melbourne, claims a young South Sudanese community leader. Sudanese-born community campaigner Nelly Yoa ...

Two police were brutally beaten by a mob of youths in a Paris suburb on New Year’s Eve. A video of the bashing of one officer ...

An out-of-control unmanned Chinese space station is expected to plummet to Earth in the next coming months. But where the parts of the Tiangong-1 that survive reentry ...

A federal politician has blamed Melbourne’s so-called African crime gang crisis on a lack of political leadership at the state level—sentiments backed up by the country’s ...