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 (...)
Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll.
It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (...)
The man who went on a stabbing rampage in a Sydney shopping center appears to have targeted women, police say.
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long (...)
An accused rapist who had sought to clear his name by suing one of Australia's largest television networks for defamation has lost his case, with a judge finding that, on the balance of probabilities, he committed the crime.
The verdict brings an (...)
A bishop and several other people have been stabbed during a sermon in Sydney that was being streamed online, local media report.
The incident reportedly happened on Monday night in the suburb of Wakeley.
Police responded to reports that a number of (...)
A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping center before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing (...)
An Australian police officer has been hailed as a hero by the country's prime minister, after she confronted and shot dead a man who fatally stabbed six people at a Sydney shopping center.
"There is no doubt that she saved lives," PM Anthony (...)
Eyewitnesses have described scenes of chaos as they fled a busy Sydney shopping mall where a knifeman killed six people and wounded several others.
"It was carnage," said a witness, who was in a cafe nearby with his two young children as the attack (...)
Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have failed in their bid to sue Qatar Airways.
They and other women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found (...)
O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star and broadcaster whose athletic achievements and fame were eclipsed by his 1995 acquittal in the brutal killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, has died of cancer, his family (...)
Australia's foreign minister has suggested the country could recognize Palestinian statehood, to increase momentum toward peace.
However Hamas could have no role in its governance, Penny Wong said.
Both Australia's opposition and the Zionist (...)
Five plastic-wrapped packages believed to contain cocaine have washed up on beaches in Sydney, deepening a long-running drug mystery.
Found by beachgoers at Freshwater and Curl Curl on Monday, the parcels — 5kg in total — were seized by police.
They (...)
Taylor Swift's father will not face charges for allegedly assaulting a paparazzi photographer in Sydney last month, Australian police have confirmed.
Officers "have conducted an investigation following a report of an assault at Neutral Bay Wharf (in (...)
An Australian man has been freed after spending 36 hours trapped in a drain network.
He first entered a drain in Brisbane on Saturday "while trying to retrieve his phone", according to authorities.
The man, aged in his 30s, was rescued on Monday (...)
Uber has agreed to pay A$271.8m ($178.3m; £140m) to settle a lawsuit in Australia, according to a law firm for taxi operators and drivers.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers filed the class action on behalf of over 8,000 taxi and hire car owners and (...)
RIYADH — Deputy President of the Saudi Arabian Olympic and Paralympic Committee Prince Fahd Bin Jalawi Bin Abdulaziz Bin Musaed warmly received Dunia Abutaleb, the Saudi Taekwondo national team player, early Monday at King Khalid International (...)
A family who had gone missing in a remote, flooded region of Australia's outback have been found alive after a three-day search.
The family of seven had set off on Sunday, planning to travel 400 miles (650km) from Kalgoorlie Boulder to (...)
A man has been killed and another critically injured following a gold mine collapse in Australia.
The pair were hit by falling rocks 500m (1,640ft) underground at the site in Ballarat, near Melbourne, on Wednesday afternoon local time.
Another 29 (...)
A UK man who migrated to Australia to become a police officer has died after falling during a celebration to mark his engagement.
Liam Trimmer, 29, cut a carotid artery in his neck in an accident at his home in Western Australia (WA) on (...)
Dozens of people were injured after a flight from Australia to New Zealand experienced a "technical event" that produced a sudden movement, according to the flight's operator, with witnesses telling local media passengers were suddenly thrown around (...)
One of the teenagers accused of killing a British mother when they broke into her home in Australia has pleaded guilty to murder.
Emma Lovell, 41, was allegedly stabbed when confronting two intruders in Brisbane on Boxing Day in 2022.
She had (...)
Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef is suffering another mass bleaching event, officials have confirmed.
Bleaching occurs when heat-stressed corals expel the algae that gives them life and color.
It is the fifth time in eight years widespread (...)
An Australian man has been charged with murdering a woman who was last seen leaving her home a month ago.
Samantha Murphy has not been seen since she went out from her home in Ballarat, Victoria, for a run on 4 February.
Her disappearance led to a (...)
It would take a remarkable child acting performance to rival Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett on screen. But that's exactly what untried prodigy Aswan Reid has done in her latest movie, critics say. Barely 11 years old when The New Boy was shot (...)