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.

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.

Downton Abbey has released new press photos of its cast dressed in authentic regalia but there is something amiss in one of the images.

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.

Legendary American actress Lauren Bacall died of a stroke at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning aged 89.

Actor Robin Williams died at the age of 63 on Monday, authorities have confirmed.

He’s a small boy, dressed like so many Sydney boys. He’s got his summer sandals on, and his cute, checked shorts; his baseball cap, and his big, plastic watch. Oh, and he’s holding a severed head. A real, severed human head.

The storm of controversy over abandoned surrogate baby Gammy has deepened after his biological Australian parents spoke out publicly for the first time on national TV last night.

The Australian parents at the centre of the scandal over baby Gammy, whom they allegedly abandoned to a Thai surrogate, will break their silence this weekend.