Among a trove of chilling declassified documents that reveal the US government's knowledge and support of a campaign of mass murder against Indonesia's Communist Party in the mid-1960s, one "important cable" cites as its source a "reliable Australian journalist".
Suspicion that gay rights is a "Western agenda" aimed at destroying Indonesian culture has helped fuel an unprecedented crackdown on the nation's LGBT community.
South Sydney have re-signed Sam Burgess and his twin brothers to ensure they aren't caught up in the multi-million dollar feeding frenzy that is the open market when November 1 ticks over.
Follow live as the Wallabies take on the All Blacks in the third and final Bledisloe Cup Test.
Police have detained a suspect in a knife attack in the southern German city of Munich, a police spokesman said on Saturday.
Three men have been arrested after man died following a brawl outside a pub in Eildon, about 140 kilometres north-east of Melbourne.
As more than 85,000 students prepare to sit their VCE exams, we caught up with four students who last year agreed to film the moment they received their results.
She carried the field to the line in the Caulfield Cup, now Single Gaze will carry Canberra's hopes in the Melbourne Cup.
A 20-year-old man has died after being struck by a Holden utility in the early hours of Saturday morning in Sydney's north-west.
An 87-year-old Beaufort woman has died in hospital following a bus crash last week which also claimed the life of another elderly Victorian woman and hospitalised more than dozen women.
A Qantas flight bound for San Francisco has turned back to Sydney because of a technical issue.
The Turnbulls, while unable to attend, had invited the Hands Across Canberra charity to host the educational event.
There are moments Iilish Ross wonders what might have been. What might have been if not for personal difficulties that made her give up the sporting passion of her teens.
Up to 15,000 "yes" campaigners in Sydney marched in a bid to encourage remaining voters to mail in their postal forms this week.
The police vessel Conroy was expected to bring the bodies back to Gladstone for identification on Saturday night, before heading back out to guard the scene.
A man already on bail for child pornography charges has been arrested living in a house across the road from a Brisbane school and allegedly conducting surveillance on young girls.
The Queanbeyan-Palerang Arts Trail is showcasing the region's best artists this weekend.
Accused drug smuggler Cassandra Sainsbury faces six years in a Colombian prison, after reportedly striking a plea bargain with prosecutors.
The incident occurred just after 4pm on Saturday.
Disaster assistance has been activated for the Gladstone and North Burnett regions following flooding from heavy rain over the last week.
A bizarre rural crime is giving a new look at the silence of the lambs.
The chief of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front, which has been accused of mobilising spying abroad, has told Chinese living in Australia to respect local laws.
Helens Hill, north-west of Townsville, saw more than 300 millimetres of rain in recent days causing a local river to break its banks and flood nearby paddocks.
No one has ever been charged over the deaths of six women in Melbourne from the 1980s, but a new $6 million reward could help police catch one of Victoria's most notorious serial killers.
Disgraced former tax official accused of working behind the scenes to dupe a wealthy Chinese property developer over $12m deal.
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery at Rivett Post Office on Saturday morning.
Job search company Indeed says it recorded a 10 per cent drop on searches almost instantaneously after the government announced its crackdown on foreign workers.
Victoria's education boss could be investigated by the Ombudsman over explosive claims she tried to pressure a youth justice executive not to give damaging court evidence against the Andrews government.
At least 30 police officers were killed in a shoot-out during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in Egypt's Western desert, two security sources said on Friday.
The Ox Ranch near Uvalde, Texas, is not quite a zoo, and not quite an animal shooting range, but something in between.
"Most people don't even live life. They exist and they are always living somewhere else in their mind, you know. So living now is important to me. Sit under a tree and just be there under that tree, that's where I am at now."
Have North Korea's nuclear tests become so big that they've altered the geological structure of the land?
Parents of an eight-year-old boy with severe autism who refuses to wear clothes, is incontinent, unable to communicate, self harms and can attack others, say they will be forced to relinquish their child unless given more support.
Police recommend no criminal charges be laid over last year's Dreamworld ride disaster, but the ultimate decision will lay with the coroner.
Spain's main opposition party confirmed that it would support the central government if it took steps to dissolve the Catalan regional parliament in order to head off its drive for secession.
Melbourne and Jack Watts needed to go their separate ways.
Reckon managing Jarryd Hayne is a challenge? Garth Brennan brings with him life experiences that put the Gold Coast coaching job into perspective.
Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, did not die of prostate cancer and may have been killed with a toxic substance, a group of international experts said on Friday.
Jarryd Hayne may have played his last game at fullback after new Gold Coast coach Garth Brennan revealed he's considering permanently shifting the enigmatic star into the halves.
A UN human rights panel has told China that it wrongfully arrested three prominent human rights activists accused of subversion and called on the government to release and compensate them.
Dogs may soon be safe to return to city pubs with a proposal before parliament to protect an old part of Sydney pub culture that has recently been overturned by council rangers and health and safety laws.
The alarm was raised by a person on board the vessel at around 4:10pm, and Water Police swung into action, coordinating a marine search and rescue operation.
A 22-year-old western Sydney man has been arrested for an alleged hit-and-run incident in which a police officer was struck by a vehicle travelling at 121km/h last month.
Fundamentally, the 1987 market crash was a mass stampede set off through viral contagion. That kind of panic can certainly happen again.
As Bitcoin moved up sharply again this week, after breaching $US5000 last week, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue heard evidence about virtual currencies and tax.
As for which was their favourite quote posted on the bathroom mirror, it seemed all three girls were in agreement: "don't be born an original and die a copy."
Changing Australians' reading habits may be a challenge for Amazon.
General Electric Co's new chief executive vowed on Friday to hold executives accountable for failing to deliver profits.
Emergency services shut off the power during the delicate rescue operation after the driver's legs were trapped in the wreckage.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has been reinvigorated by an influx of whistleblower tips.
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