Federal Minister Jamie Briggs resigns over a late-night incident involving a female public servant, followed a short time later by embattled frontbencher Mal Brough, who stands aside pending the completion of a federal police investigation.
One person is dead after an explosion causes a crash between a truck and five cars and leaves wreckage strewn across a busy intersection in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.
Police dramatically increase their estimate of how much sulphuric acid was being carried by a freight train that crashed in outback Queensland, saying more than 30,000 litres could have gushed from a ruptured wagon.
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi promises to rid the country of Islamic State militants in the next year, after counter-terrorism forces reclaimed the western city of Ramadi from IS fighters.
West Indies are lose their fifth wicket after tea on day four at the MCG, chasing 460 to win in the Boxing Day Test. Follow all the action with our live blog.
A five-year-old boy in a Tennant Creek child protection facility has allegedly attempted to smother a one-year-old boy who is also in care, and staff have flagged concerns over the little action taken.
A record-breaking young pilot is identified as the man who was flying a Tiger Moth plane which crashed near the Gold Coast on Monday, killing a 58-year-old passenger.
Motorhead singer Lemmy Kilmister dies of cancer at the age of 70, with the band saying the "extremely aggressive" disease was only diagnosed on Boxing Day.
While the crew of American yacht Comanche celebrate line honours, Australian supermaxi Ragamuffin 100 charges home in a tight battle to finish in second place in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
Science fiction epic Interstellar tops the list of 2015's most pirated movies, with almost 47 million downloads, and the global number of illegal downloads appears to be on the rise.
A record series of tornadoes as well as heavy floods kill dozens of people in the southern United States, with blizzard conditions now setting in across many parts of the country.
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