A passenger says an AirAsia X plane was shaking like a "washing machine" when it experienced a problem with its engine, and was forced to turn back mid-flight to Perth.
An oil tanker flips over and catches fire on a highway in Pakistan after a person tries to light a cigarette nearby, killing at least 123 local residents who had rushed to collect leaking fuel.
The location where the NT Government is looking to put a huge water park to boost Darwin's sagging economy is both an Aboriginal sacred site and, according to Defence, contaminated with toxic chemicals.
An amateur English historian in Japan unearths a crucial piece of a puzzle which ties in to the mystery of the brig Cyprus, an Australian ship hijacked in 1829 by a group of convicts.
Eleven days after burying who they thought was their son, a California family receive a startling phone call — their son is still alive, and they have just buried the wrong man.
Male and female soldiers describe being kicked, punched and spat on by their partners in a powerful new Australian Army video aimed at stamping out domestic and family violence.
Guantanamo Bay detainee Riduan "Hambali" Isomuddin has been charged over the 2002 Bali bombings. Here's what we know about how he became "the most powerful" figure in the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organisation - and how he was caught.
British officials are investigating a cyberattack on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorised attempts to access parliamentary user accounts" which affected MPs and staff access to email accounts outside of Westminster.
Richmond is facing Carlton at the MCG and St Kilda plays the Gold Coast Suns later, after Geelong snuck over the line to beat Fremantle to kick off an AFL Sunday. Follow it all in our live AFL ScoreCentre.
When ABC correspondent Adam Harvey was shot in the neck while covering unrest in the Philippines, his wife Eliza, also a journalist, was 5,000 kilometres away in Sydney with their small children.
A crackerjack weekend of rugby league concludes with the Cronulla Sharks taking on the Manly Sea Eagles after the Dragons' come-from-behind win over Newcastle. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary.
A silver-medallist Paralympian wins the women's title at the Australian Adaptive Surfing competition, just 24 hours after she tried surfing for the first time.
A man who was dropped off at a northern NSW hospital after being shot on Saturday afternoon dies, but police say there is "no evidence" his death was related to an Origin-night bikie brawl.
A Queensland cattle property becomes the front line for a groundbreaking method to stop the spread of cane toads, turning the pests' own toxin against them to kill toad tadpoles by the thousands.
A neighbour alerts emergency services after hearing noises from a house in Melbourne's north-west, where a woman in her 40s had been trapped under the floor for a number of days.
British Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn tells young revellers at Glastonbury Festival that the millions of people who voted for him "will not be silenced or sidelined" after the crowd enthusiastically chanted "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn" as he was welcomed to the stage.
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill is hoping voters will overlook economic problems and corruption controversies to give him a second term when they cast their ballots over the next two weeks.
Cladding on 34 high-rise buildings across the UK has failed fire safety tests conducted in the wake of the deadly blaze at Grenfell Tower, officials say, as dozens of residents refuse to leave a group of west London apartment blocks evacuated due to safety concerns.
A Sydney woman sets up a charity to put all the unwanted hotel toiletries and inflight sleep kits into packs for homeless people in shelters who cannot rely on having basic essentials like a toothbrush.
Can drones help fight deforestation and climate change? This team of engineers hopes to use drones to plant 1 billion trees every year to fight an unfolding global catastrophe.
You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts.
This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com.
Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email.
This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
0 comments:
Post a Comment