Australia’s main concern with the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi is not corruption claims but security, the Australian government said on Wednesday.

Wearing shorts to work in Hungary might not merit a second glance but in India you are likely to be deemed a slacker who won’t make senior management, according to a global Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday threatened legal action over claims he was once used as a “double agent” by rival politicians to leak damaging information about his own party.

A boat made out of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles sailed into Sydney Harbour on Monday, four months after it set out from San Francisco on a journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness about the perils of plastic waste.

A Catholic priest was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Friday by an Australian court which convicted him of sexually abusing children over a period of 18 years.
John Sidney Denham, 67, was jailed for 19 years and 10 months by Sydney’s Downing Centre district court, with the judge saying many victims were left feeling terrified a

An India-born surgeon dubbed “Dr Death” was found guilty on Tuesday of killing three Australian patients and permanently harming another, after a trial which heard evidence of botched and needless ope

Australia’s new leader Julia Gillard defended her ruthless disposal of predecessor Kevin Rudd on Friday as she used her first day in office to target the policy blunders which triggered the shock take

The chairman, chief executive officer and top executives of an Australian mining firm were aboard a chartered plane that went missing after it took off in Cameroon, Australian mining officials said on

An Australian man was jailed for 30 days for blowing a bubble in court, reports said on Friday.

Two people were killed after their light plane crashed in a Sydney neighbourhood on Tuesday, narrowly missing houses and an elementary school.