A teenager who stabbed a British mother to death after breaking into her home in Australia has been jailed for 14 years.
Emma Lovell, 41, was killed when confronting two intruders in Brisbane on Boxing Day in 2022.
She had emigrated from Suffolk in (...)
With the Chinese economy facing massive challenges, there have been concerns over its growth potential, at least in the immediate future.
Yet a key exception is emerging in the form of domestic tourism.
Last week's five-day public holiday to mark (...)
One of Japan's most well-known bread brands is recalling thousands of packets and offering refunds after the remains of a rat was found in its products.
Around 104,000 packs of sliced white bread made by the Pasco Shikishima Corporation have been (...)
A man charged over the disappearance of three tourists on a surfing trip in Mexico confessed to killing them, a court has heard.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad disappeared on 27 April near (...)
Australia has announced it will ramp up its extraction and use of gas until "2050 and beyond", despite global calls to phase out fossil fuels.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government says the move is needed to shore up domestic energy supply (...)
Australia has accused a Chinese fighter jet of firing flares into the path of a naval helicopter last weekend over international waters of the Yellow Sea, an action that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blasted as "completely unacceptable."
The (...)
قدم شخص من سكان منطقة بيرث في أستراليا أكثر من 21 ألف شكوى من الضوضاء الصادرة عن الطائرات التي تحلق فوق منطقته العام الماضي، وهو ما يمثل ما يقرب من نصف جميع الشكاوى في أستراليا.
وتم الكشف عن السجل الغزير لصاحب الشكوى المجهول في الأرقام المقدمة إلى (...)
The bodies of three tourists found in a well in Mexico's northwest all had bullet wounds to the heads, authorities say.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, 30 and 33, and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, disappeared on 27 April (...)
Australia's biggest airline Qantas has agreed to pay a A$100m ($66.1m, £52.7m) penalty to settle a legal case accusing it of selling thousands of tickets for flights it had already canceled.
Under the deal with the Australian Competition and (...)
Police in Australia have launched an investigation following a complaint by Queensland MP Brittany Lauga that she was drugged and sexually assaulted.
The assistant minister for health said she was attacked on a night out in her constituency of (...)
Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands have selected a pro-China candidate as their prime minister, in an indication the Pacific nation will remain a close Beijing ally.
Jeremiah Manele won the prime minister vote on Thursday, beating his opponent Matthew (...)
The grassy expanse of the University of Queensland's Great Court has long been the center of student life at the Australian state's biggest university.
Now it's a gathering point for rival camps pitched around 100 meters (328 feet) from each other – (...)
The Australian government has talked up its close ties with Delhi despite reports that two Indian spies were expelled from the country in 2020.
In 2021, Australia's intelligence chief said that foreign agents had been operating locally in the (...)
Australia's newest budget airline has gone into voluntary administration, after abruptly canceling all of its flights on Tuesday.
Bonza's financial woes have left thousands of passengers stranded around the country.
Operating since last year, the (...)
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University have escalated their protest over the war in Gaza by occupying an academic building.
Activists at the university in New York City seized Hamilton Hall early on Tuesday, barricading (...)
Rallies have taken place across Australia in response to a wave of recent violence against women.
Demonstrators want gender-based violence to be declared a national emergency and stricter laws put in place to stop it.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (...)
Former Home and Away star Orpheus Pledger has been arrested after a three-day police manhunt in Australia.
Pledger, 30, is facing four charges for allegedly assaulting a woman, authorities say.
He had been granted bail on Monday to undergo a (...)
Australia's leader has called Elon Musk an "arrogant billionaire" in an escalating feud over X's reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing.
On Monday, an Australian court ordered Musk's social media firm — formerly called Twitter — to hide (...)
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party has won a landslide victory in a parliamentary election, cementing his grip on power.
Provisional results show the People's National Congress (PNC) won 66 seats in the 93-member house.
Analysts view the (...)
The day after the stabbing attack on a bishop, a forensics expert was sweeping a fingerprint brush over a nativity scene by the entrance of the Sydney church.
A small car parked outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church had its window screen smashed (...)
Ren Wenbing is reluctant to leave the hollowed-out brick shell which was once a thriving factory in China's manufacturing hub of Dongguan.
"All the workers feel astonished," says the 54-year-old as he points out where he once assembled furniture and (...)
In the Solomon Islands, the night before an election is known as Devil's Night.
Political candidates offer bribes — handing out everything from cash to sacks of rice and Chinese-made solar panels to secure votes last minute.
Vote-buying has been a (...)
Australian police have declared Monday's stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated "terrorist act".
A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd (...)
A Frenchman who tried to stop a deadly stabbing rampage at a Sydney mall has been promised an Australian visa.
Damien Guerot was labeled a hero after footage of him confronting knifeman Joel Cauchi with a bollard during Saturday's attack went (...)
US space agency NASA confirmed that an object that crashed into a home in Florida earlier this month was part of the International Space Station (ISS).
The metal object was jettisoned from the orbiting outpost in March 2021, NASA said on Monday (...)