Hurricane Matthew, carrying winds of 195 kilometres per hour, cuts power to around 800,000 households in the US as it moves north, threatening more destruction after killing more than 800 people in Haiti.
The 2016 Nobel Peace prize is awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to bring the country's more-than-50-year-long civil war to an end, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee adding it should also be seen as a tribute to the Colombian people.
A levee at risk of breaching prompts an emergency evacuation warning for some residents in Wangaratta, as Victorians are told to brace for damaging winds and rain this weekend.
The US carried out a deadly strike on a local trauma centre in the Afghanistan city of Kunduz in 2015, killing 42 staff and patients. Twelve months on, the city is once again a war zone, as freelance correspondent Andrew Quilty discovers.
Stacey Robertson was lured into becoming a money mule after applying for a fake job on a Federal Government employment website. She says after she reported it to the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network, she never received a reply.
A woman is killed and 12 people are seriously injured after a car ploughs into a house where mourners are gathering for a funeral in far north Queensland.
Small telcos in regional Australia are finding a way around the data drought, by setting up fixed wireless networks that broadcast a signal to paying customers in town from high elevation points like grain silos, bucket elevators and buildings.
The undersea explorer who discovered the Whydah Gally, the first authenticated pirate shipwreck in North America, believes he has found where the ship's legendary treasure lies after more than 30 years of poking around the murky waters off Cape Cod.
The Philippines' defence chief says he has told the US military that plans for joint patrols and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea have been put on hold.
A Swedish woman reveals she has given birth to a baby from the same womb she was born from, after receiving a uterus from her mother in pioneering surgery.
A US trend of people dressing up as creepy clowns in public has come to Victoria, prompting local police to warn antisocial behaviour will not be tolerated.
A New South Wales farmer shares the experiences of other farmers living in the aftermath of the recent floods on social media to help raise awareness of their struggles.
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