The Treasurer has issued a radio apology for claiming poor people will be less affected by proposed petrol tax hikes because they "either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far".

A new interview has given a glimpse into the bizarre romance between Bali Nine member Scott Rush and high-flying London lawyer Nikki Butler as the pair prepare to get hitched. Scott Rush, 28, is one of the infamous group of nine young Australians known as the “Bali Nine” who were arrested and jailed for attempting […]

Gable Tostee, the man at the centre of an on-going police investigation into the death of a New Zealand woman on the Gold Coast last week, has been charged with murder.

Convicted murderer Keli Lane has lost her final court appeal to overturn her murder conviction. Lane was sentenced to a minimum of 13.5 years in prison for the murder of her baby daughter Tegan, who went missing just days after she was born. She had launched an appeal against her sentence in 2011, but that […]

Keli Lane, the woman sent to jail for killing her baby girl, Tegan, has had her application to appeal her murder conviction refused by the High Court.

Iran's Maryam Mirzakhani is trailblazing her way through the male-dominated industry of mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The daughter of the late NSW premier Neville Wran has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of 48-year-old Daniel McNaulty in Redfern on Sunday night.

Sunday night's 60 Minutes interview with David and Wendy Farnell has shocked and appalled many in the community, but the horrific circumstances of baby Gammy also provide us with the opportunity to combat the negative perceptions of people living with Down syndrome.

The adult daughter of baby Gammy’s Australian father has come out in support of her dad, saying he will be a wonderful father to Gammy’s twin sister Pipah. Jane Farnell’s move comes just days after the Western Australian couple at the centre of the surrogacy scandal, David and Wendy Farnell, told 60 Minutes they fled […]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has hit out at US President Barack Obama, saying he should have intervened earlier to control jihadists spilling from Syria to Iraq.