More than 20 Australians are believed to be onboard a cruise ship that caught fire and began drifting off the coast of Mexico earlier this week. A tugboat is now towing Carnival Splendor, which is carrying thousands of passengers, to the US port city...

First it was the bushfires, then it was the floods - and as Victorians are still mopping up and rebuilding, here come the locusts. Authorities warn a forecast locust plague could be the biggest in 75 years and may even threaten the Melbourne Cup as the...

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said a police investigation had left no doubt Israeli intelligence services had been behind the forgery of four Australian passports used by suspects in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel...

THE NSW Labor government has been rocked by yet another scandal, with Transport Minister David Campbell quitting last night following revelations he attended a gay sex club. Mr Campbell, who is married with two adult sons, was caught on camera by the...

Australian Brett Lee, one of the fastest bowlers of the modern era, announced his retirement from test cricket on Wednesday with the aim of extending his international career in shorter forms of the game.

On Oct. 18, a rickety boat emitted signals of distress from the Sunda strait, a body of water sandwiched between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. Local authorities had no vessels in the area, and called on Australia for assistance. When...