A gunman has opened fire on students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, a rural town in Oregon.

This week, Australia has been hotly discussing the cause and the root of domestic violence, whether it's gender or poverty, education or influence. The Weekly's Michael Sheather investigates.

Police are investigating if it's the body of Simone Quinlan.

Police were called to the compound after neighbours saw a bleeding woman trying to scale a fence.

Kelly Gissendaner, who was the only woman on death row in Georgia, died in the early hours of this morning, having been convicted of plotting to murder her husband 20 years ago.

It can be hard for a paedophile to gain the trust of potential victims, which is why Bryan Edward Roads recruited a child he knew to use as bait.

At this point it became clear that there was sexual contact. When I showed the letter to my husband he snapped.

A young woman who was reported to have been murdered in 1984 has been found alive - and quite well.

A Chinese-Australian woman has received a horrific racist tirade on Sydney bus and no one came to her aid.

Local children rescue a baby girl abandoned in a gutter in Brisbane suburb of Inala.