Malcolm Turnbull says Australia's terror alert level will remain 'High', the Prime Minister said on Saturday afternoon during his first address relati...

U2 has canceled a concert scheduled for Saturday night in Paris in the wake of terrorist attacks in France that claimed at least 100 lives. The con...

Berlin: Malcolm Turnbull and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed submarines, people smuggling, and the humanitarian crisis caused by the Sy...

A 22-year-old man will face court after he was charged in relation to the murder police accountant Curtis Cheng in Sydney's west last month. Police...

The first openly gay AFL footballer to come out has called for the code to do make than "symbolic gestures" to support the LGBTI community and its pla...

Six Islamic schools across the country have been slapped with non-compliance notices by the federal Department of Education over breaches of financial...

Large-scale studies into serious medical conditions like cancer can take years, and end up with inconclusive results. Cancer sufferers simply don't...

Indigenous Australians are living longer than ever, but still die 25 years earlier than the non-indigenous population. The Australian Bureau of Sta...

The mother of an autistic teenager said her decision to restrain her son with chains was a "big mistake", and one she made in a moment of high stress ...

Bill Shorten has claimed Malcolm Turnbull wanted to be secretary of the Australian Workers Union -- a position Shorten himself once held. Shorten m...

Victoria Taxis haven't had a good few days. After the farce of #YourTaxis backfiring spectacularly, as the social media universe turned the PR exercis...

A video showing a group of African students being asked to leave an Apple store at Highpoint shopping centre in Melbourne on Tuesday has caused widesp...

Jetstar and Virgin have updated their flight information for services from Bali to Australia and will continue to fly people home on Thursday, but Bal...

Ronda Rousey is redefining combat sports. The Californian native, reportedly the highest-paid athlete of either gender in the Ultimate Fighting Champi...

Beloved short film festival Tropfest will not go ahead in 2015, cancelled just weeks before its annual December event. Tropfest founder and directo...

Less than a month before it was due to be held, Tropfest has been cancelled. A dispute with the company that manages the event has forced founder J...

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd will stump up $100,000 toward establishing a chair at the Australian National University dedicated to "closing the ga...

We've heard of robbing someone blind, but some Aussies seem pretty willing to take it to the extreme. Australian actor Adrian Gee tested out whethe...

Australian gridiron player Jesse Williams' short career in the NFL has sadly been plagued by more off-field medical issues than on-field achievements,...

Goulburn, in the NSW southern tablelands, is known for its police academy, its historic gaol and the Big Merino, the world's largest concrete sheep. I...

The Earth's climate has just hit an important milestone -- but it's not the sort of achievement we want. The United Kingdom's Met Office announced ...

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has launched a scathing attack on Australia's current political landscape, saying the Liberal and Labor parties are p...

Dennis and Linda Anfuso met in art school, bonded over their interest in "The Wizard of Oz," fell in love and got married. But that's where the tradit...

A mother has been arrested after a 16-year-old was found chained to a bed in Blacktown, in Sydney's west, on Tuesday afternoon. Police arrived at a...

Asking the internet at large to "send us your stories" is like waving a red rag at a bull; silly, ill-advised and sure to end up with more than a few...