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Thousands of fans lined fairways and TV network helicopters circled overhead as Tiger Woods played his first round of golf in Australia in 11 years Tuesday. Complete Story...
It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car — and no clothing.
Australia launched an investigation Thursday into an oil rig leak that dumped thousands of barrels of fuel into the Timor Sea over more than two months before being plugged this week.
A psychiatric patient was charged Thursday with two counts of murder in the overnight stabbing deaths of two men who were also patients at an Australian hospital.
In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection for females is, apparently, having sex with the neighbors, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.
Australia's central bank raised its key interest rate Tuesday by a quarter percentage point for the second month in a row, declaring the global downturn over and warning that inflation was set to rise.
The surveillance video makes your blood run cold. A young mother on a train platform lets go of the stroller holding her 6-month-old son for an instant. As if nudged by an unseen hand, the stroller rolls toward the tracks a few feet away. As the woman scrambles desperately to recapture her precious cargo, the stroller topples off the platform and lands upside-down on the tracks — just as a train rolls into the station at 20 mph.
Planes and ships searching a remote patch of the Indian Ocean found no signs Tuesday of additional survivors from the sinking of a suspected asylum-seeker boat. Eleven people were believed missing, while 27 were rescued.
Thousands of dead fish and clumps of oil have been found drifting near Indonesia's coastline more than two months after an underwater well began leaking in the Timor Sea, officials and fishermen said.
Beijing is sending a top-level official to Australia this week for the first time since a series of rows sent relations plummeting between the Asian giant and one of its key suppliers of raw materials.
Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday.
Thousands of people ate breakfast on the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the iconic steel span was transformed Sunday into a grassy picnic ground.
An 88-year-old man accused by Hungary of Nazi war crimes during World War II surrendered to Australian police Thursday after exhausting his appeals against extradition.
Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday. He was 75.
Australia does not want its forces to be in Afghanistan "a day longer than is necessary" and plans to hand over security to domestic forces it is training in a troubled southern province in three to five years, the defense minister said Wednesday.
A leech found at a crime scene eight years ago led Australian police to a man who admitted robbing an elderly woman in 2001, officials said Tuesday.
One of Australia's most popular tourist trains, The Ghan, derailed after hitting a cow in the Outback, train company officials said Monday.
Energy company Chevron Corp. said Sunday it has made an additional discovery of natural gas in the giant Gorgon gas field being developed off the northwest coast of Australia.
A 16-year-old Australian steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor on Sunday to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.
A 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his mother let go for an instant.
Five Muslim men were convicted Friday of plotting Australia's largest terrorist conspiracy as part of a bid to force the government to change its policy on Middle East conflicts.
John Daly will play in the Australian Open and Australian PGA golf tournaments in December after recovering more quickly than expected from a rib injury.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd confirmed on Tuesday that he telephoned Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono about Australia's influx of asylum seekers before the Indonesian navy reportedly intercepted a boat load of 260 Sri Lankans bound for Australia at the weekend.
Australia will resettle 42 Afghan men who survived a boat explosion that killed five fellow asylum seekers in Australian waters in April, an official said on Monday.
A man accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off of a Melbourne bridge has pleaded not guilty to her murder.
Kevin Rudd's diplomatic skills will be tested during his current short visit to India.
Father thought 3yo 'possessed', court toldA Supreme Court trial has heard a man accused of murdering his three-year-old son and dumping the body in a mine shaft in the outback was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed his son was possessed by the devil.
Queen honours Australian trooperThe Queen has awarded an Australian soldier the Victoria Cross for his bravery in Afghanistan.
Simon Baker takes stake in new car classifieds venture CarAdviceOnline classifieds guru Simon Baker has emerged as an investor in car website CarAdvice and will help steer the site's new classified advertising venture.
Schoolgirl suspended for cancer head shaveThe mother of a 15-year-old girl suspended from school for shaving her head to raise money for cancer charities says her leukemia-stricken husband is proud of her actions.
Points system: Schoolies set to scoreTen points for making first base, 20 for waking up lost, 50 for stealing a policeman's hat. It is the point-scoring system that puts a light-hearted spin on the annual rite of passage for graduating high school students across the country: Schoolies.
Hot in the city: Melbourne heads for record November heatVictoria's spring heatwave just got hotter with the Bureau of Meteorology now saying the predicted cool change won't arrive until early Monday morning.
Documents reveal ruckus over future of Newcastle rail lineTOP-LEVEL transport bureaucrats criticised a proposal to cut the rail line at Wickham and urged Transport Minister David Campbell to prevent the NSW Cabinet endorsing the plan before more analysis was done, documents show.
Jonathan Holmes: 'Pwned!'"Which means that Garry Linnell, and Paul Kent, and their first rate sources, to use a word beloved of the computer-gamers, have been well and truly pwned," said Jonathan Holmes on last night's final Media Watch for 2009.
Cars firebombed, mum and kids rescuedFIVE cars in the front yard of a suburban Sydney home have been firebombed in a bizarre attack and a mother and three children have been rescued from a burning home.
Australian admits creating first iPhone virusA 21-year-old Australian man has admitted creating what is thought to be the first virus to infect Apple iPhones.
Man punched his way out of shark attack A man who was bitten by a shark south of Adelaide at the weekend says the shark released him when he punched it repeatedly in the mouth.
Age, not menopause, to blame for broken bonesNew research from the Australian National University in Canberra shows women who experience early menopause do not have an increased risk of hip fractures later in life.
Fishing bandits ripping millions out of Hunter watersBLACKMARKET and illegal fishing costs the region millions and wreaks untold damage on fish stocks and the environment.
CA must not be charmed into Chingoka's snake pitPeter Roebuck November 9, 2009: Cricket Australia has found itself in the unenviable position of drawing high praise from Peter Chingoka, the longstanding and wealthy chairman of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC). It's a bit like being kissed by a snake.
Net censorship seen liable to WTO challengeCENSORSHIP of the internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organisation as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.
Suspected burglar cat-napping on the jobPolice in Perth say they may have solved two crimes after finding a suspected burglar asleep on the job.
Supermarket duopoly blamed for soaring food pricesSupermarket giants Coles and Woolworths are being blamed for Australians paying the fastest growing prices for groceries in the world.
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatoryAn unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.
Bar on costly phone services likelyMOBILE phones are likely to be automatically barred from accessing premium ring tones, games and information services after the consumer watchdog threw its support behind the move.
Greens challenge Rudd on gay marriagePrime Minister Kevin Rudd has been asked to allow Labor MPs a free parliamentary vote on gay marriage.
Girl, 12, overlooked by DOCS gives birth to boyA 12-YEAR-OLD girl from Dubbo who became pregnant to her 15-year-old live-in boyfriend has given birth to a boy.
Elite college students proud of 'pro-rape' Facebook pageA GROUP of past and present University of Sydney students set up a ''pro-rape'' page in the sports and recreation section on Facebook, describing themselves as ''anti-consent''.
TV stations exceeded prescribed limits with adsTV viewers are being short-changed on their favourite shows, with networks flouting advertising time limits.
Ponting's million- dollar handshakeAUSTRALIAN captain Ricky Ponting might have lost the Ashes and seen his team tumble down the Test rankings, but he has been the biggest winner of a massive bonus payment to the nation's elite cricketers.
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