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A Turkish Airlines flight has been evacuated after a note was found ion the bathroom, which read "bomb to Toronto." Read more
Angry Parisians have rallied against police brutality once again after police were charged with sodomising a 22-year-old man with a baton. Read more
Angelina Jolie's new film is based on a Cambodian woman's account of her survival as a child under the 1975-79 communist Khmer Rouge regime. Read more
A 29-year-old Parramatta woman has died from a stab wound to her chest. Read more
Lisa Marie Presley says she's broke, her eight-year-old twin daughters are in state custody and she has been in a treatment facility for undisclosed reasons. Read more
Two men are in hospital with gunshot wounds after separate incidents in country Victoria. Read more
Sydney and parts of NSW have been battered by a thunderstorm which has left three women recovering from lightning strike and hundreds of homes damaged. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull says a suggestion to exempt the big four banks from the government's company tax cuts is not practical. Read more
Four men have been charged after the Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission smashed a drug ring alleged to have links to the Hells Angels. Read more
A third man has died on Victoria's roads in less than a day after the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a tree. Read more
A firefighter has lost his home while trying to save other people's properties during a bushfire east of Canberra. Read more
Labor leader Bill Shorten says the prime minister is fighting hard to defend the banks from a royal commission while giving them a huge tax giveaway. Read more
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann says government-owned businesses need to take community expectations into account when setting executive salaries. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull has pressed the flesh with Bill English in a bid to reaffirm the relationship so strong under the former New Zealand prime minister John Key. Read more
A woman faces a murder charge after an Irish man was fatally stabbed during a fight at a home in Sydney's southwest. Read more
WWE Hall of Fame member George "The Animal" Steele, who was famous for his bald head, green tongue and turnbuckle-biting antics, has died aged 79. Read more
Residents whose homes were destroyed in a southern NSW bushfire have been allowed to return. Read more
Super trawlers and trawling in general will be permanently banned under legislation to be introduced by the Tasmanian government. Read more
A sitting Victorian Liberal MP has fended off a preselection challenge from a woman four decades his junior. Read more
A seven-year-old boy has gone missing from South Bank in Brisbane. Read more
The Trump administration has suffered its latest blow with Donald Trump's new pick for national security adviser turning down the job. Read more
A young woman has died after the car she was travelling in crashed in Queensland's central highlands. Read more
A man who operated two IGA supermarkets in Melbourne will face court over allegedly underpaying six workers $11,373 over two years. Read more
Three men remain at large after a man was bashed - reportedly with nail-studded baseball bats - in front of horrified bystanders at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull has spent the day with Bill English in Queenstown even taking a moment to quiz the New Zealand prime minister about company tax cuts. Read more
Debt is piling up after earnings fell 1.8 per cent at Village Roadshow's Gold Coast theme parks in the wake of the fatal disaster at rival park Dreamworld. Read more
The S&P/NZX50 Index dropped 6.46 points, or 0.09 per cent, to close at 7,093.52. Read more
Two brothers and one of their wives have died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after they entered an empty water tank on a NSW farm. Read more
Coal miner Whitehaven is targeting faster debt repayments after first-half profit jumped to $157.5 million on the back of higher volumes and a surge in prices. Read more
Malcolm Turnbull says the government will consider on merit any request to boost Australia's military commitment in the fight against Islamic State. Read more
Medibank Private has lifted its group net profit but the health insurer made less money and is still losing customers. Read more
Ex-Queensland premier Anna Bligh has rejected Labor's push for a banking royal commission after being appointed the next Australian Bankers' Association CEO. Read more
Cutting company taxes in New Zealand hasn't been the investment booster it was expected to be, says Malcolm Turnbull's counterpart. Read more
A Nationals MP has floated the idea of scrapping house deposits in favour of banks relying on the rental histories of prospective buyers. Read more
Santos has posted a $US1.05 billion loss after a writedown at its Gladstone liquefied natural gas plant but says the business is turning around. Read more
ANZ has lifted first-quarter cash profit 31 per cent to $2 billion and says full-year provisions are on track to be lower than previously expected. Read more
Australian public hospitals are in a constant "state of emergency" due to inadequate funding, AMA president Dr Michael Gannon says. Read more
The NSW government's decision to deliver light rail to Sydney's west in two stages has been attacked by Labor, which says the second half will never arrive. Read more
Arch conservative Mick Mulvaney has been sworn in as director of the White House budget office. Read more
A study has found energy drinks could be life-threatening for some, and does eating carbs during high-intensity exercise aid recovery? Read more
