Australian police on Wednesday said they had discovered the skeletal remains of a woman in a Sydney house who had been dead for up to eight years.

She was found in a home long assumed by neighbours t

It was when fashion designer Pia Interlandi was preparing her beloved grandfather for his funeral, complete in his best suit and leather shoes, that she realised her calling was in death wear.

Women wearing the burqa or full-face veils will now be forced to show their faces when stopped by police, a senior official said.

Attorney-General Greg Smith said it was the duty of all citizens to i

Australian officials were on Saturday working to isolate potential victims after uncovering two more cases of the deadly horse-borne Hendra virus, which has erupted in a second state.

Spread to human

The Australian media has come down hard on the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not taking any action against Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose criticism of umpire Daryl Harper's perfo

Not content with driving a Formula One car, Australian star Mark Webber now wants to fly planes and Qantas plans to help him.

The 34-year-old Red Bull driver used a B737 flight simulator ahead of the

West Indian Chris Gayle will form a dynamic opening partnership with David Warner after signing for Sydney Thunder for Australia’s Big Bash Twenty20 tournament, Cricket NSW said on Thursday.

Australian police are considering using fingerprints to identify people wearing face-covering veils, after a judge said he could not be sure a burqa-clad woman was who she told police she was.

The ju

A shallow 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the New Britain coast of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the USGS said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The US Geological Survey put the depth of the qu

An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.