Australian hiker Andrew Gaskell, 25, who was lost in a remote Malaysian national park for two weeks says he resorted to eating wild ferns to survive
The likely High Court case about Bob Day's eligibility to be a senator will, for the first time, test an anti-corruption section of the constitution that prohibits parliamentarians from having a relationship with companies that get government contracts
Malaysia Airlines has agreed to hand over top secret documents to Australian families suing for compensation over missing flight MH370. The victims' families hope the documents will speed up their claims
Some of the oldest Aboriginal artefacts in Australian history have returned home for a temporary exhibition after being stored at the British Museum for the past 180 years. But Aboriginal elders are calling for the stone axes, spears and knives to stay in Australia long-term.
Here's what's coming up:
8:30am AEDT: A Senate inquiry will look at the debate around Lyme disease
8:30am AEDT: Health Minister Sussan Ley will launch the National Shingles Vaccination Program for people over 70
9:10am AEDT: The Dutch royals will meet PM Malcolm Turnbull and lay a wreath at the MH17 memorial
11:00am AEDT: Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou will name the squad for the November 15 World Cup qualifier against Thailand
12:30pm AEDT: Former trade minister Andrew Robb will speak at the Australia China Business Council Food and Agribusiness Summit
If Bob Day is declared ineligible as a senator because of the arrangements around the rent of his office, plenty of other politicians are likely to be looking over their shoulders, says one legal expert.
After refusing for more than year to provide any corporate records to assist compensation claim against it, Malaysia Airlines is suddenly changing course and agreeing to hand over almost all of the documents it has been so desperate to keep secret.
Tasmanian hiker Andrew Gaskell, who spent two weeks lost in a remote Malaysian national park, says he ate ferns and was starting to lose strength before being found by a search and rescue team.
Former team-mates of Michael Quinn, the Melbourne amateur rugby union player convicted of child sex crimes in the United States, say they feel horror and anger towards their former friend and have been targeted by online trolls since his arrest.
Artillery and air strikes pound the eastern edge of Mosul as the battle to recapture the Islamic State group's last main bastion in Iraq enters a new phase of urban warfare and the UN raises fears about the use of human shields.
A former Socceroo who died in an Adelaide Hospital after an oxygen tube was connected to his catheter was left in the care of an unsupervised student nurse, an inquest hears.
The W-League's spectacular season launch featured the news games would be broadcast in the USA — just another step for forward for Australian women's sport.
The father of murdered New South Wales schoolteacher Stephanie Scott dies after a tree falls on him at a farm at Canowindra in the state's central west.
Lloyd Williams' imported horse Almandin wins the Melbourne Cup, beating Irish horse Heartbreak City in a tight finish to give Williams his fifth Cup winner.
Latest national polling shows US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck, with Mr Trump leading by just one point — well within the margin of error.
The Australian Federal Police investigates the discovery of crystal methamphetamine in a thoroughfare used by air traffic controllers, with a source claiming Airservices Australia management has done little to get to the bottom of the find.
British Gymnastics bans four-time Olympic medallist Louis Smith for two months for what it calls a 'regrettable' video in which he and a fellow gymnast appear to mock Islam.
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