Unusual new penguin flu found in AntarcticaA new kind of bird flu has been detected for the first time in Adelie penguins in Antarctica, though the virus does not seem to make them sick, researchers said.
07 May 2014
Claims 220 Australian child sailors raped, brutalisedAllegations that 220 child sailors at an Australian navy training base were raped or brutalised in the 1980s are so serious they will be raised in a paper to parliament, a report said.
05 May 2014
Plane lands safely in Australia after engine fireA passenger plane carrying 93 people landed safely at Perth Airport on Tuesday despite an engine fire that erupted shortly after take-off, officials said.
29 April 2014
Bali hijack alert passenger 'mistook cockpit for toilet'An Australian passenger who sparked a hijack alert on a flight to Bali has denied being drunk and claimed he banged on the door of the cockpit after mistaking it for the toilet, Indonesian police said.
26 April 2014
Drunk passenger on Virgin plane sparks Bali hijacking alertA drunk passenger sparked a hijacking alert on a Virgin Australia flight heading for the Indonesian resort island of Bali Friday when he attempted to break into the cockpit, officials said.
25 April 2014
Angry scenes as Chinese MH370 relatives meet airline staffA meeting between relatives of Chinese passengers aboard missing flight MH370 and Malaysia Airlines staff descended into chaos Thursday, with police stepping in to separate both sides amid angry scenes in a Beijing hotel.
25 April 2014
Australia boosts air power with $11.6bn purchase of 58 F-35sPrime Minister Tony Abbott announced Wednesday the purchase of 58 more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters costing Aus$12.4 billion ($11.6 billion) in a major defence upgrade to maintain Australia's regional edge.
23 April 2014
Two-thirds of underwater search done, no sign of MH370Two-thirds of the planned underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been completed, with no signs so far of the jet, Australian officials said.
21 April 2014
William and Kate tour town ravaged by bushfiresSurvivors of last year's devastating Australian bushfires met with Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate on Thursday as the royal couple visited the Blue Mountains.
18 April 2014
Australian state premier quits over wine 'memory fail'A leading Australian politician resigned Wednesday after admitting to a "massive memory fail" when he told a corruption inquiry he never received a bottle of wine worth Aus$3,000 (US$2,780).
17 April 2014
Lock of Napoleon's hair stolen in AustraliaA lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair and other "priceless" artefacts linked to the French emperor have been stolen from a museum in Australia, police said.
16 April 2014
Fish losing survival instinct in acidic oceans: studyFish are losing their survival instinct -- even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators -- as the world's oceans become more acidic because of climate change, new research.
15 April 2014
Japan says no decision on 2015-16 whalingJapan on Monday insisted it had made no decision on whether to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean next year, after a militant environmental group said Tokyo intended to evade an international court ruling.
14 April 2014
Australia's far north battens down for major cycloneAustralia's sparsely populated northern tip was Thursday preparing for the largest cyclone to hit the area since Cyclone Yasi smashed into Queensland in 2011, ripping homes from their foundations and devastating crops.
11 April 2014
Australian charged with murder of young French womanA young Australian man appeared in a Brisbane court on Wednesday charged with the rape and murder of 21-year-old French student Sophie Collombet, reports said.
09 April 2014
Baby Prince George heads Down Under for first tourBaby Prince George was heading from Britain to New Zealand and Australia on Sunday, with parents Prince William and his wife Catherine taking the eight-month-old on his first ever tour.
06 April 2014
Planes, ships deployed to investigate Chinese signalPlanes and ships were being diverted Sunday to the area where a Chinese vessel detected signals consistent with a black box beacon in the hunt for missing flight MH370, the search chief said.
Woman killed by shark in AustraliaA woman was taken by a shark on Thursday while swimming with her husband in Australia, authorities said, in an attack which horrified fellow swimmers.
03 April 2014
Japan cancels next Antarctic whaling hunt after ICJ rulingJapan said Thursday it was cancelling its annual Antarctic whaling hunt for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in line with a UN court ruling that the programme was a commercial activity disguised as science.