A North Korean ballistic missile was fired over the north of Japan this morning, with residents urged to take shelter as the missile approached and Japan's Prime Minister saying his country is facing a "serious and grave threat".
If there was a simple way out of the North Korean missile crisis, it probably would have been tried before now, writes Philip Williams. And from now, every North Korean missile launch brings the risk that it will be one too many.
Is Bangladesh building up to a shock Test win over Australia in Dhaka? The host's batsmen will look to build a big lead on day three of the first Test. Follow it all in our live blog.
A crane operating off a barge at Milsons Point topples into Sydney Harbour, with stunned witnesses reporting a "huge bang" and seeing a cable fly off the construction site and land on Luna Park's distinctive entry face.
Natalie gave birth to her daughter at home, with only her husband to help. It wasn't an accident — it was her choice. It's called freebirthing, and researchers and midwives believe it's on the rise.
Australia's Christian churches offer sanctuary to 100 asylum seekers caught up in a Government welfare crackdown affecting those who were originally transported to Australia for medical treatment.
The nation's largest telco is opting out of the third-party billing 'scam' that sees unsuspecting customers or their children subscribed to $10-a-week premium services.
It was a plot twist few saw coming, but the Network Ten falling into the hands of CBS makes for grim viewing for Seven and Nine as they battle dwindling viewers and earnings.
Australian experts find a big increase in patients having heart attacks but who have no risk factors such as high blood pressure, being obese or smoking.
A three-year-old girl who died after being shot in the neck with an illegal sawn-off shotgun at a home in Sydney's west is remembered as "an angel who was taken way too soon".
Australia's housing affordability crisis is likely to continue for another 40 years unless there are major changes to the market, according to the latest report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
Donald Trump's "single most important promise" has been the US southern border wall, and he won't let anything stop its construction. Not the US Congress, and certainly not Hurricane Harvey, writes chief foreign correspondent Philip Williams.
Social media has empowered communities against regimes, police brutalities, and exposed human rights abuses. But what are its limitations? And can evidence from Twitter be trusted?
Australia offers to send Special Forces soldiers to the Southern Philippines, in an attempt to help join the fight against Islamic State in the war-torn city of Marawi.
The skills of Paul McClarin are no longer available in Australia, but the results of his vocation are there for all to see at the National Museum in Canberra.
Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd abandons its bid to stop hunts as Japan uses military-grade technology to track its ships in the Southern Ocean, with founder Paul Watson saying "we are going to have find an alternative way to deal with them, and we will".
A Victorian surfer says he is lucky he was wearing a "really thick wetsuit" after a shark attacked him numerous times near Lorne, on the state's south coast, leaving large bite marks in his board.
Want to take better photos of your cat, dog or animals in the wild? Here's some top tips for photographing wildlife with award-winning photographer David Stowe.
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