A crowd stampede at the Falls Festival on Victoria's south-west coast overnight leaves dozens of people hurt, with 19 party-goers taken to hospital for treatment of fractures and other "serious injuries".
With 2016 coming to a close, millions of people across Australia are expected to turn out to ring in the new year with fireworks, live music and entertainment.
A four-wheel drive on a barge heading from Inskip point to Fraser Island, north of Brisbane, rolls off and sinks, taking with it passports, phones and other valuables belonging to a group of backpackers.
Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and her actress and writer daughter Carrie Fisher will have a joint funeral and be buried together after dying a day apart this week, their family confirms.
Bowling in partnerships, gelling as a group, bowling to a plan ... they are all cricketing cliches but their very real impact was on full display as Australia's attack skittled Pakistan.
A coming-of-age ceremony that sees Uganda's young males circumcised without anaesthetic, while not showing pain lest they are not accepted as men, is being promoted to tourists as a new cultural attraction.
A Rio de Janeiro policeman confesses to murdering Greece's ambassador to Brazil at the direction of the diplomat's wife, with whom he was having an extramarital affair, police say.
Britain's rich linguistic tapestry is changing, with the south-east region's dialect taking over the country due to forces similar to those which affected colonial Australia.
Two executives with an Indonesian budget airline resign after the release of disturbing footage showing an Indonesian pilot staggering through an airport metal detector en route to the cockpit of his plane.
Russian President Vladimir Putin rules out expelling anyone in retaliation for Washington's decision to throw out 35 Russian diplomats and impose sanctions on two of the country's intelligence agencies.
The way we watch sport as an audience is changing, with the use of second screens, apps and online highlights making mobile phones as important as TVs.
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