More than 1,500 prisoners escaped from a Maputo prison Wednesday, taking advantage of the third day of unrest triggered by ...

Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor ...

An Australian gold mining company has taken an African government to court over a dispute worth nearly half a billion dollars. Cassius Mining filed proceedings in London’s Court of International ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, ...

The man in his 20s slipped and fell onto concrete while jumping into Bronte Beach’s ocean pool on Wednesday. Emergency services rushed to the scene at about 4.30pm following reports he had been ...

The Chase Australia’s official Shark, Brydon Coverdale, has created a new daily quiz challenge. How’s your general knowledge?

A Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman confirmed there was an incident between two male prisoners about 3pm on ...

Speaking from the chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital, the monarch reflected on how the devastating affects of conflict in the Middle East, central Europe, Africa and elsewhere posed a daily ...

As the rain trickled down, about a thousand people packed together to hear guest speakers and survivors reflect on one of the ...

CFA volunteers are flat out today, extinguishing fires sparked by embers blowing up to 3kms out of the Grampians’ forest and ...

Ukrainian President Vololdymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of plumbing new depths by making the “conscious choice” to launch ...

Firefighters are bracing for “uncontrollable” fire conditions that are tipped to be as dire as the Black Summer with wind gusts of 100km/h and temperatures of up to 40C forecast for Boxing Day.