Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson's families express their anger at police tactics on the day of the Sydney siege, saying they were devastated to learn police only planned to enter the Lindt Cafe if gunman Man Haron Monis killed or seriously injured someone first.
US President Donald Trump calls on Middle Eastern leaders to combat a "crisis of Islamic extremism" emanating from the region, casting the fight against terrorism as a "battle between good and evil" — not a clash between the West and Islam.
Any hiccups from China will rattle our economy — and the past week has seen some concerning signals emanating from Beijing that its latest attempt to extract itself from a looming debt crisis has done more harm than good, writes Ian Verrender.
The 2006 Australian film Candy, starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, exposed Megan Bannister's former life as a heroin addict and prostitute. Her redemption story has largely gone unnoticed — until now.
Unreleased footage emerges of the late Heath Ledger filming Candy with Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush. It was the last movie Ledger ever made in Australia.
A mid-range missile launched by North Korea, which flew 500 kilometres and landed in waters off the country's east, has a shorter range than those fired in three previous tests, the US says.
Panicking politicians who make kneejerk decisions to bolster Australia's energy security run the risk of fuelling a power crisis with more blackouts and restrictions, a Grattan Institute report says.
The first Indigenous ranger group in Queensland to receive certification to use drones commercially is being trained to use them to monitor the health of the Great Barrier Reef.
Aboriginal Tasmanians will argue for a compensation deal that returns land and pays Indigenous people 3 per cent of GDP during a summit on constitutional recognition at Uluru this week, as the Referendum Council fights accusations it has not consulted widely enough.
Swiss voters back the Government's plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy, ban new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities in a binding referendum.
A man is charged with breaching an apprehended domestic violence order after a 21-year-old woman's death, which police say they are treating as suspicious.
Eleni Glouftsis creates history by becoming the first woman to officiate an AFL/VFL match as a field umpire, while the future of the iconic centre bounce is again a topic of debate.
A two-year-old boy is killed by his family's car, which rolled forward when his mother stopped to allow him a toilet break, in what police say is a "tragic and devastating set of circumstances".
A Pakistani student who has been studying in Perth is fighting for her life after being found unconscious in the stairwell of an apartment block in the CBD, as a man is charged with grievous bodily harm.
A Melbourne-bound Qantas flight carrying nearly 500 passengers is forced to turn back to Los Angeles after an engine fails, with a passenger video appearing to show a spark mid-air.
New Zealand has never had a space program, but a company using disposable rockets with 3D-printed engines hopes the nation will soon be launching more commercial rockets than the US.
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