Turkish police detained 20 suspected Islamic State militants thought to be of Central Asian and North African origin in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir on Wednesday, according to a police statement.
Indonesia's defence minister has sought to play down a suspension of military ties between Australia and Indonesia, stressing it was important to keep a good relationship between the two countries.
Turkish authorities have identified the gunman who shot dead dozens of revellers at a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year's Eve, Turkey's top diplomat said on Wednesday, as police stepped up raids against suspected militant hideouts as part of the hunt for the attacker who is still at large.
They were promised foam waterfalls, rain tunnels, even snow - but the runners who signed up for this weekend's fun run may have been sold a lie.
An earlier report said cooperation was halted because Indonesia took offence at material used during joint military training with Australia.
Business leaders thinking about how they might want to better themselves in 2017 would be well advised to take an intensive course in managing climate risk.
A glance from a police officer investigating a suspected car theft has seen police seize more than $60,000 worth of heroin, knives, casino chips and cash outside a hotel in Melbourne's south-east.
Why the government should pay back your mortgage debt, according to maverick economics professor Steve Keen.
Police are on the hunt for machete-wielding bottle shop thief who apologised to his victims during the scary incident, saying "I'm sorry, I broke up with my girlfriend".
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An Israeli soldier who was filmed shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant has been found guilty of manslaughter by a military court.
Australia's rapid rate of population growth is the only thing that has stopped the country from reaching 'peak car', the point at which traffic volumes on the roads begin to fall, a new report suggests.
Proposed cuts to company tax have come under fire from former federal treasurer Peter Costello for being less effective at boosting the economy than personal tax cuts.
Employees pining for a shorter, six-hour workday just got some bad news from a trial in Sweden closely watched globally.
Masked robbers wielding a handgun and machete have robbed an Elsternwick jewellery store in a frightening afternoon heist.
Authorities have cracked down on rogue waste management operators in Queensland, including the unlicensed transport of asbestos, chemicals and waste oil.
Townsville residents are so afraid of young thugs committing crimes they've called for a night curfew.
Around 100 armed men with links to Muslim rebels stormed a prison in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, killing a guard and freeing more than 150 prisoners, some of them Islamic militants, officials said.
It's her sliding door moment: Byron Bay woman Sara Connor often thinks about what might have happened had she not tried to intervene in a fight between her boyfriend and a stranger on Kuta beach that fateful August night.
Dreamworld has rather unkindly been described as a "ghost town" in some sections of the media since it reopened about 3½ weeks ago.
Hunter Hall says the takeover bid from Washington H. Soul Pattinson is at a material discount to its share price.
Several guns and computers have been stolen in a break-in at an Australian Defence Force barracks on the NSW mid north coast.
Police were relieved there were no deaths on ACT roads over the holidays despite a high number people caught dangerous driving.
You wouldn't be alone in thinking Canberra had been taken over by Christmas beetles these holidays, as warm, wet weather had created perfect conditions for the bugs.
Centrelink's debt recovery letters are leaving many people dumbstruck.
St Edmund's College parents and old boys are upset about changes to the school's coat of arms, saying the new version is cartoonish, child-like and does not respect the history of the institution.
Centrelink's contentious debt recovery system is making some of the targeted people feel suicidal, independent MP Andrew Wilkie has claimed.
The ACT government paid out more than $1.7 million to 92 victims of crime in the year 2015-16, the justice and community safety directorate's annual report reveals.
Canberra MP furious at 'jobs and growth' mantra.
Relocation packages won't come close to covering the full costs of the move, public servants say.
Shocking new figures have confirmed what many of us already know - the majority of Brisbane motorists do not know how to correctly indicate on roundabouts.
Sally was driving at 100km/h when a snake popped up in front of her from under the bonnet of her car and 'scared the living daylights out of her'.
Xavier Richards will be playing for Sydney in 2017 after all. Sydney University, that is.
A woman charged with arson has been ordered to live close to the site of a grass fire she allegedly started while on bail.
The Shire of Exmouth council in Western Australia's north has been suspended for six months and a commissioner has been appointed to oversee the local government.
An 18-year-old man from Hampton Park has been charged over a frightening Goldilocks-like scenario in which a Melbourne couple returned home to find a man in their bed.
A woman has been charged with murder in relation to a fire that claimed the life of a man in Long Gully last year.
The largest shareholder in struggling dairy group Bellamy's Australia has moved to force out several of the company's directors – a move the board has rejected.
Government estimates of feral cat populations have been found to be off by millions in a new study.
On Tuesday afternoon a South Australian driver discovered a red-bellied black snake in her bonnet as she drove a long the highway at 100km per hour.
Shares closed marginally higher on Wednesday as gains in financials and Telstra offset energy and utilities losses.
Arson Squad detectives are investigating the bushfire in East Cannington which damaged property and put lives at risk on Wednesday.
Five popular beaches in Melbourne's suburbs have again been declared unfit for swimming after preliminary testing has found storm water pollution and faeces has not dissipated as quickly as experts had hoped.
$4.2 million spent on consultants through the directorate's $11.9 million Systems Innovation Program.
Mr and Mrs Culleton on Wednesday took aim at everyone from former associates to judges, banks and the media.
The Woodford Folk Festival's decision to go cashless has bitten festival-goers who left with unrefunded credits that organisers considered to be "too high".
A man has drowned at a beach near Ocean Grove.
WA Labor has vowed to scrap the controversial and "deeply flawed" Perth Freight Link if it wins the March election.
Hundreds of Victorians have been diagnosed with Ross River virus after heavy rains probably caused mosquito populations to surge, Victoria's Chief Health Officer says.
A fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon in bushland at Hickeys Lane in Penrith, with both the NSW Fire and Rescue Service and NSW Rural Fire Service responding to control the five hectare blaze.
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