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A nurse diagnosed with an anxiety disorder was followed by a private investigator, tracked on social media and bullied by insurer TAL as part of its campaign to deny her income protection claim, the banking royal commission hears.
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The sister of a mother killed alongside her three daughters and their grandmother in a suburban Perth house says she is struggling to fathom the situation, as there was no indication of any danger prior to the killings.
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Two Russians appear on state television saying they were wrongly accused by Britain of trying to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter, and had been visiting Salisbury to see "its famous cathedral with a 123m spire".
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Malcolm Turnbull urges his former colleagues to refer Peter Dutton to the High Court, prompting an accusation from Barnaby Joyce that the ex-prime minister seems to have "an active campaign" to remove the Coalition from Government.
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Frank Lowy offers a scathing assessment of Australia's leadership woes in a wide-ranging speech also taking aim at the country's immigration policy and relationship with the US.
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Melissa Thompson, who sued Harvey Weinstein in June, says she made the recording while demonstrating video technology for the disgraced movie mogul at his New York City office in 2011.
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The tech giant has finished a process it began last year by showing off three new iPhones without a home button. Here's what else Apple showed off at its annual keynote.
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The man, who was driving so fast witnesses said his car sounded like a jet, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for culpable driving.
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Two girls, aged two and three, die after it is believed a toy fell onto a heater in their Geelong bedroom, sparking a small fire that filled the room with smoke.
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Anxious residents in Melbourne's western suburbs call on Premier Daniel Andrews to visit the area to inspect the damage caused by last month's industrial inferno amid concerns about residents' health.
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A call to use environmental water to help drought-affected farmers has been rekindled by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, but his own colleagues are ruling out the idea.
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The AFL Commission will have much to think about after the league's Competition Committee decided to recommend a raft of rule changes and interpretations.
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As an innocent Sydney grandmother remains in a coma after her car was hit by police pursuing another driver, her distraught family calls on the NSW Government to restrict pursuits to situations in which public safety is directly at risk.
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Barring a meteorological miracle, communities on the US Atlantic coast will be overwhelmed in the next day or so by winds of more than 200 kilometres an hour and a storm surge up to 4 metres high. But that may not be the worst of it, writes Philip Williams.
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The mother of Madison Lyden, the Tasmanian tourist killed by a truck while riding a bike in New York, accuses Manhattan's top prosecutor of "sheer cowardice" for failing to file criminal charges against the driver whose actions allegedly led to the tragedy.
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An SUV crashes into a crowd at a public square in central China, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 40 others, the city government says.
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The Philippines is bracing for powerful Typhoon Mangkhut, which is expected to hit on Saturday and has farmers worried for their crops amid rice shortages.
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Police charge an 18-year-old man over a hit-and-run that took place after a fight broke out inside a Collingwood pub and spilled onto the street.
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A girl born on February 29, 2000, who allegedly broke the law on February 28 exactly 18 years later causes a conundrum for a Canberra court. Should she be treated as an adult?
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Police and health authorities are warning families to cut up their fruit, after a copycat case of strawberry tampering in Gatton, west of Brisbane, where a rod was placed inside a punnet at Coles.
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Senior Treasury and Rudd government officials spent days wargaming financial disaster scenarios in February 2008, eight months before the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, a former key advisor reveals.
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Australian scientists make a remarkable discovery about what is lurking in the brains of people with schizophrenia, giving them new clues about what might cause the illness, and hope for better drug treatments.
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A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head.
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As an innocent Sydney grandmother remains in a coma after her car was hit by police pursuing another driver, her distraught family calls on the NSW Government to restrict pursuits to situations in which public safety is directly at risk.
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has defended a court's decision to jail two Reuters journalists, saying their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression, and they can appeal their seven-year sentence.
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After the death of two chicks last year, Melbourne's peregrine falcons have again laid eggs on top of the Collins Street high-rise they call home. Birdwatchers are hopeful the webcam that broadcasts their lives will bring happier news this year.
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The country's new roadmap to a net-zero emissions economy demonstrates what's possible when politicians work together while harnessing the ideas of business, academia and activists to find solutions to complex problems like climate change, writes Stuart Evans.
