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The tremors rocking Bali's Mount Agung continue to increase in intensity and frequency, suggesting an eruption is imminent, but authorities face a last-minute struggle to evacuate locals unwilling to leave their businesses and livestock.
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Thousands of airline passengers face delays, including families heading off for the school holidays, following an air traffic control system failure in Sydney, that one pilot says has left the city's skies "like a ghost town".
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The numbers no longer stack up when it comes to coal-fired power: wind and solar are cheaper, and rising electricity costs have more to do with gas prices and network costs than any "green scheme", writes Ian Verrender.
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A New South Wales police officer appears in court accused of secretly filming a colleague during sex and uploading the video to social media app Snapchat.
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Australia will create its own space agency in an attempt to cash in on a $420 billion aeronautical industry and create thousands of new jobs.
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President Donald Trump says his call for owners to fire NFL players who kneel during the US national anthem "has nothing to do with race", after his comments spurred about 200 players to kneel, sit or raise their fists ahead of weekend games.
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No-one should be hoodwinked into believing that the move by the big four banks to drop withdrawal fees on automatic teller machines is all about putting the customer first, writes Peter Ryan.
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A 36-year-old man who was awaiting trial over a blast at the Canberra headquarters of the Australian Christian Lobby has killed himself.
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Rescuers get a glimmer of hope, pulling a small dog alive from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Mexico during the country's deadliest earthquake in 32 years.
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The US will prohibit entry of citizens from North Korea to America as part of a sweeping new travel ban that also slaps restrictions on Iran, Chad, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen and Somalia.
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Trent Cotchin is cleared to play in the AFL grand final after the match review panel decides not to charge the Richmond captain for his clash with Dylan Shiel.
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An Australian white power group which describes itself as "the Hitler you've been waiting for" plasters stickers over signage at Tasmania's university in a night raid as part of an apparent national campaign to get its message out.
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Being busy and feeling overwhelmed is a fairly normal state for many of us, yet there are plenty of reasons why we should say no and slow down. But how do you make that shift?
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A cruise company is given a final warning after a female tourist was accidentally left on a remote beach that is inaccessible by road and often unvisited by boats for days.
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Labor accuses the Government of wasting "millions of dollars" on "endless reviews" after figures show more than 100 new contracts with external advisors were signed in the two years before the NDIS' bungled full launch.
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How did a world expert in autism miss a diagnosis right under his nose? That's the question that Professor Tony Attwood still mulls over and deeply regrets. Now his research has led him to believe people with Asperger's have the ability to solve the world's big problems.
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Two homes were lost to bushfires on rural properties near Comboyne, west of Port Macquarie, in yesterday's hot, windy weather.
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Nick Kyrgios says he took a knee before his Laver Cup match against Roger Federer to honour "two people that have passed away", not to support US athletes whose protests have sparked a spat with Donald Trump.
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Florin Burhala's companies received millions from the Government, but the ATO says he owes more than $4.5 million in unpaid taxes and fines. Now, it's seeking an order forcing him to turn over a substantial Romanian property portfolio to Australian authorities.
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Adelaide woman Cassandra Sainsbury, who is accused of trying to smuggle 5.8 kilograms of cocaine out of Colombia, says she has evidence to prove her innocence but cannot access it.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel wins a fourth term in office but bleeds support to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, whose triumphant entry into Parliament sparks protests in Berlin.
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Dozens of Syrian civilians who were sheltering in a school were reportedly buried in a mass grave after being killed in an air strike. A new report accuses the US-led coalition of not taking enough steps to minimise civilian casualties.
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With the Melbourne Storm possibly on the brink of another NRL premiership, Richard Hinds ponders whether Billy Slater's natural talent would have made him the legend he is without the Storm's first-class coaching, player development and culture.
