Australia's long-awaited naval shipbuilding plan acknowledges South Australia will struggle to provide the thousands of skilled workers needed for a massive expansion of the Navy's fleet, with foreign workers and interstate talent needed to help meet ambitious production deadlines.
The beaches of World Heritage-listed Henderson Island are littered with more plastic debris than anywhere else in the world, a survey of the remote South Pacific wilderness finds.
Asylum seekers on Manus Island are told they must leave the Australian-funded detention centre so it can be closed, with an unnamed immigration official telling detainees they should "not leave it too late" to make a decision.
It was one of the biggest gun-smuggling operations in Australian history — a brazen scheme that shocked NSW Police and embarrassed Australian Customs officials. And it was all run out of a suburban Sydney post office.
Australian doctors say respiratory infections increase the risk of a heart attack 17 times, which may explain why heart attacks are more common in winter.
Most Australians didn't get caught up in the massive WannaCry ransomware attack. But there's no guarantee you'll avoid the next one. Here's what to do if you've been hacked (and how to avoid getting hit next time).
Protesters objecting to HECS changes briefly interrupt Q&A as Education Minister Simon Birmingham defends the Government's budget against claims it makes university education less attractive and targets young people.
Treasurer Scott Morrison's budget forecasts and claimed return to surplus are based on wages growth almost doubling from its current record low — but pigs might fly before that happens.
French President Emmanuel Macron appoints Edouard Philippe, a relatively unknown 46-year-old politician, as prime minister, making good on campaign promises to repopulate French politics with new faces.
An Indonesian court increases the jail term for the Australian woman convicted over the killing of a Bali police officer to five years, saying she left the man to die on the beach after he was bashed by her boyfriend.
Scores of Italian mobsters are arrested after they allegedly took charge of one of Europe's largest migrant reception centres, using a Roman Catholic charity organisation as a cover to skim more than 36 million euros in state funds.
A society dominated by childless couples could become Australia's reality, with data analysis suggesting they will become the most common family type by 2023.
Australia's major banks argue the Federal Government's proposed bank levy will be paid for by customers, has been hastily designed, and should be lifted once the budget returns to surplus.
There are fears of a looming disaster in Syria's last opposition stronghold of Idlib, with up to 2 million civilians trapped in the region vulnerable to attack from Syrian government and Russian forces and at the mercy of an increasingly powerful jihadist group.
The ICAC hearing into Eman Sharobeem is adjourned amid concerns for her health, as the former Australian of the Year finalist claims she faked names on invoices because she was "clumsy".
Russian President Vladimir Putin says an impromptu piano rendition he gave on the sidelines of a meeting in Beijing was hampered by an out-of-tune instrument.
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