In a long-awaited move, Labor has vowed to introduce paid leave for family violence victims - if it wins government at the next federal election.

Australian of the Year Rosie Batty has fired back at former Labor leader Mark Latham over a recent newspaper column on family violence, writes Karen Middleton.

And we mean, WEIRD.

A gunman in Louisiana has killed two people in a local movie theatre, before turning the gun on himself.

A teenager from the UK has died after taking too many painkillers for a tummy ache.

The baby girl's mother is currently being held as the primary suspect.

A man has been arrested and charged after it was found out he broke into a family home and hid under the bed of the daughter for three days.

Twenty years after she locked her toddler sons in a car and rolled them off into a lake to drown Susan Smith is protesting she’s not the evil murder everyone thinks she is.

Today the judges of the Qantas Women of the Future Awards convened to deliberate over the semi-finalists and pick a Judges' Choice winner.

After evading arrest for two days, NT police have managed to capture a man who went on the run with seven of his children.