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Oscar Pistorius plans to sell the $460,000 house where he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year to pay his legal fees. Pistorius, currently on trial for shooting Steenkamp in the upstairs bathroom of his luxury home in Pretoria on Valentine’s Day last year, is spending as much as $9000 a day on his […]

The Australian Maritime Search Authority has released satellite images it believes could be the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. AMSA posted the images on its website this afternoon. They show several objects – some as large as 24 metres in length – suspected to be parts of the fuselage of the plane. The […]

If Australian authorities have found the wreckage of flight MH370, what is it doing off the coast of Perth and why did it crash? Here are some of the current theories circulating the internet. Pilot sabotage: Malaysian authorities have confirmed that they have searched the residence of Capitan Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, and seized a […]

Their press conference about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane is currently being beamed around the world – so who are John Young and John McGarry? An experienced and well-respected member of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, John Young has spearheaded numerous emergency search and rescues throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has been at the centre […]

Australian authorities are searching for survivors of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 in the ocean off Perth. Australian Maritime Search Authority (AMSA) spokesman John Young told a press conference that RAAF personnel were “doing their level best” to find and rescue any passengers who may have survived whatever happened to the plane. Related: Aussies […]

Australian authorities believe they may have spotted debris from the missing Malaysian airliner MH370 off the coast of Perth. Earlier today the Australian Maritime Search Authority (AMSA) announced it had received satellite images of objects – some as large as 24 metres in length – awash in the Indian Ocean 2700 kilometres south-west of Perth. Related: Who […]

The wife of former MP Craig Thomson has said her husband is “a good man” who is sorry for the “hurt” he has caused. Zoe Arnold was one of nine friends and family members who tendered character references to the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday. “My husband is a good man,” Zoe wrote. ”I know Craig […]

The chances of Australia’s competing department store chains Myer and David Jones merging any time soon is less likely following an unexpected six-month rise in revenue at DJs and a dip in profits at Myer. At Myer, interim net profit fell 8.1 per cent to $80.8 million as it was hit by higher rents, labour […]

The Queensland attorney-general will appeal the 20-year non-parole sentence handed down to Daniel Morcombe’s killer, Brett Peter Cowan, last week. Cowan was sentenced to life imprisonment  in the Queensland Supreme Court last Wednesday after he was found guilty of abducting and murdering the 13-year-old schoolboy in December 2003. The attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie said yesterday that […]

Prince Harry frequently got drunk and telephoned his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, a London court has heard. The 29-year-old royal would call blonde Chelsy, who he dated on and off until 2011, and “shout his affections to her down the phone,” the court investigating phone hacking at now-defunct British tabloid The News of the World heard […]