In a dank flat in south-western France, 23-year-old Nasir stares at a living room wall bare except for a list of emergency numbers. Here, he contemplates life outside the Jungle migrant camp in Calais.
When Canada was designing its current C$20 bank note, it considered ditching its depiction of the reigning British monarch if Queen Elizabeth dies or abdicates.
The United States will further ease trade, travel and financial restrictions on Cuba as President Barack Obama seeks to make the opening up of the communist-ruled island irreversible.
A royal convoy has carried the body of Thailand's King Bhumibol past thousands of weeping Thais to his riverside Grand Palace in Bangkok.
David Gonski and friends fork out millions to support public school students in less affluent areas.
Relatives of one of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Islamist militant group Boko Haram after two-and-a-half years in captivity in north-east Nigeria said on Friday they could not wait to be reunited.
As old, stolen bodies return to Australia, Britain is being repaid in virtual reality.
A motorist is dead after a fatal collision at Goldsborough, north-west of Melbourne on Friday evening.
A man with severe disabilities who has been in state care since 1999, was ordered by Centrelink to prove his eligibility for a disability pension.
The legendary investor says there are plenty of opportunities to make some serious money.
The Turnbull government's plans to introduce laws to keep unrepentant terrorists in jail beyond their sentences could be delayed after police raised concerns that the proposed laws aren't co-ordinated with existing bail-like regimes for terrorists.
Andrea Kennedy has helped lift her 96 kilogram husband up their flight of stairs for nearly a week.
$11.6m upgrade to revamp flood-damaged infrastructure.
As soon as you put on Clear Thinking's virtual reality headset, which plays a simulation of a psychotic episode, all you want to do is take it off.
LNP says name 'strike fear' in to hearts of southerners.
President Vladimir Putin is seeking to lock in gains from the Syrian battlefield, where forces backed by Moscow are laying siege to the city of Aleppo, before a new US president takes office.
The dispute comes just days after Premier Mike Baird reversed his plan to ban the sport.
Eighty per cent of boys at the controversial Don Dale Youth Detention Centre had been sexually abused, those attending a public meeting in Darwin have been told.
Police are known to chase down criminals, but Canberrans may be surprised to learn how often their work goes beyond enforcing the law.
"The resourcing has been hopeless and this has been going on for years."
Angry ratepayers believe the green waste bins promised by Labor will be a waste of money when most garden waste is already recycled.
While today's election is too close to call, political watchers are variously predicting a big crossbench holding the balance of power, or even a majority Liberal government.
The government's top legal adviser says he will ignore a "radical" directive from Attorney-General George Brandis.
Babies, those ever-present campaign props, were wheeled out for the cameras on the last day on the hustings for Labor and the Liberal leaders on Friday.
All the promises the minor parties are making that they will probably never have to deliver on.
All three leaders agree Saturday's poll is the most important since self-government.
Drum roll please. The winner of the best election poster from the ACT election has been decided.
As a footy-mad girl on the NSW south coast, Wallaroos captain Ash Hewson could only dream of the opportunities young girls now have to play rugby.
Tourist made decision 'to climb to certain death', court hears
Des Hasler has survived to coach Canterbury in 2017, with club legend Steve Mortimer instead the casualty at Friday's emergency four-hour board meeting called to resolve the club's future.
Anti-Islam, anti-immigration party registered despite objections.
Mike Baird's popularity had him at one point in the realm of the gods – but this week, he crashed back to earth.
An Australian breast cancer researcher is calling for more ethnic-based studies into the disease to aid screening and treatment.
Christian Lealiifano sat with his shattered family moments after being diagnosed with leukaemia and told them, "we'll get through this together". The last thing he expected was sister Sally to save his life.
"Justin would be considered first class; Brandis would be considered a plodder": the feud has set tongues wagging at the Sydney bar.
An immense buh fire in the state's north-west that has razed over a million hectares is now burning a wildlife sancturay described as 'a showcase for conservation in northern Australia.'
The man who reinvented the Sydney hospitality scene says the lockout laws were an overreaction.
Donald Trump's run for the presidency has left the Republican Party in a quandary of their own making.
Fiji's inclusion in the National Rugby Championship is the most meaningful gesture any tier one rugby nation has made to the Pacific Island nations. Here is the story behind Friday's historic announcement
A secondary school in the Dandenong Ranges was robbed of thousands of dollars of equipment, and other local properties were also burgled, during the blackout that followed last Sunday's devastating winds.
Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has started new litigation against her children's trust fund to prevent it from receiving millions of dollars in royalties from a Rio Tinto joint venture.
They are the set-piece photo opportunities that prime ministers will fly across the continent to take part in.
Australia's telecommunications sector finally got back what it does best this week - sledging each other in public over
ASIC needs to be more proactive and more willing to point the finger at wrongdoers in the financial services industry.
Tony Abbott said people who think his reform push is a Trojan horse for his own leadership ambitions were "being neurotic".
Before we all get too excited about an emerging commodities boom Mark 2 - be aware that the smart money is already calling it over.
Former Capital Football boss Heather Reid is suing a Canberra soccer coach for online defamation.
Jack Steele admits it was a "weird feeling" when his desired trade to St Kilda went through on Friday.
Raiders confident move to Canberra has powerful prop heading in the right direction.
Canberra Raiders prop to make his Kangaroos debut against the Kiwis in Perth.
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