Australia

Cancer, Parkinson's and motor neurone patients could get major savings after three new drugs were listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The federal government will spend $19 million (US$13.5 million) ...

Heavy pollution in China is forcing shoppers to buy bottled air from Australia to improve their wellbeing and ...

Australian businessman David Russell Levick has been sentenced to two years' prison in the United States for exporting ...

New South Wales Labor leader Michael Daley says he played no part in organising full-page ads featuring him ...

A salmonella scare which sparked a widespread national recall of eggs is an "isolated outbreak" according to an industry group ...

A childless Sydney magistrate accused of abusing a boy in the 1980s has told a jury he was ...

A 9-year-old was forced to sleep in an airport lounge amidst boxes after his flight from Brisbane to ...

A newborn baby with its umbilical cord still attached was left in a box outside a medical clinic ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in ...

Tropical Cyclone Veronica has intensified to a Category 4 storm and is heading for Western Australia's Pilbara Coast ...

A Catholic priest has been charged with indecently assaulting a teenage boy at a school in Sydney's west ...

A state of emergency has been declared by Northern Territory's chief minister Michael Gunner as Cyclone Trevor barrels ...

Leaders of the ISIS terror group have called for retaliation for the attack on two mosques in New ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for “the safest country in ...

NSW Labor leader Michael Daley's comments on skilled Asian migrants taking local jobs have been widely condemned but ...

Kenneth To, a record-breaking Hong Kong-Australian swimmer who had his sights on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, died suddenly ...

The mayor of a remote far north Queensland community says Cyclone Trevor was "ferocious" and the worst he ...

A Melbourne man was sentenced to 11 years behind bars on March 19 over a deadly dispute with ...

CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON—Accounts emerged on March 17 of heroic attempts to tackle a gunman who slaughtered 50 people at two ...

If social media giants can build algorithms to sell ads, Scott Morrison says they can find ways to ...

New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush said the gunman who killed 50 people and wounded others at two ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—He spent just three years on this earth, but in some ways, a friend said, he ...

CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON, New Zealand—The number of people who died in a confirmed terrorist attack on two South Island mosques ...

CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON, New Zealand—Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, was charged with murder on March 16, after 50 people were ...

President Trump said that white nationalism is espoused by a small group of people who have "very serious ...

A teen protestor hit a far-right Australian senator with an egg on March 15 after the lawmaker said ...

BELGRADE, Serbia—The gunman suspected in the mosque shootings that left at least 49 people dead in New Zealand ...