Police are set to charge a man with a range of offences after he carjacked a woman and held a father and his toddler inside a ...

A great-grandmother's dementia meant she would not have understood what was happening when a Taser-wielding cop ordered her ...

An ominous post by a key Trump adviser has created doubt about whether Kevin Rudd can stay on as Australia's ambassador to ...

A terrified father has spoken of how he locked himself in his bedroom after a gunman on the run held him hostage in his house ...

Extraordinary growth in renewable energy is not enough to offset the "humungous challenge" of Australia's fossil fuels, a ...

Donald Trump has signalled that his pre-election rhetoric about mass deportations of immigrants wasn’t just bluster by naming ...

World leaders have congratulated Donald Trump while celebrities have vented their shock and dismay at the Republican's ...

A cancer drug could be a cure for peripheral artery disease by restoring blood flow in affected parts of the body.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out efforts to treat the injured after police say a man rammed his car into a crowd of people.

Remote parts of central Australia have been rattled by cyclonic wind gusts that tore roofs from buildings and cut power, as a “relentless” stormy weather system heads east. The weather bureau issued a ...

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has apologised for his children’s book featuring an Aboriginal girl in foster care amid calls to immediately withdraw the title from sale. Oliver, who is in Australia ...