The epic flooding unleashed on Houston by Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to worsen as federal engineers release water from overflowing reservoirs — some 30,000 residents are expected to be left homeless.
The Labor senator insists the ALP thoroughly investigated her family history before she stood for parliament and found she had not inherited Ecuadorian citizenship from her mother.
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.
Indigenous songwriter Dan Sultan clashes with Senator Jacqui Lambie and Attorney-General George Brandis on Q&A over the date of Australia Day, saying it "has always been racist" and should be moved.
A nurse convicted of murdering two patients in Germany with overdoses of heart medication is now believed to have killed at least 86 people — and the true scale of the killings could be even larger, investigators say.
How many times have you felt the time fly on a busy day or felt it drag when you least wanted it to? Scientists explain what's behind some of our everyday experiences of time.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at odds with the federal Liberal Party president over the Coalition's chances at the next election after trailing Labor in the last 18 opinion polls conducted by Newspoll.
The tropical storm currently smashing Texas is not your typical storm. Here's some numbers to help put some perspective on just how big Hurricane Harvey actually is.
A report which the NSW Department of Family and Community Services fought hard to keep secret, finds it misused its power to place 22-month-old Braxton Slager in foster care, where he drowned in an unauthorised backyard pool.
The cost of Government IT systems has jumped to nearly $10 billion — despite not always resulting in better outcomes for the public — because public servants prefer old, familiar solutions to newer and more innovative ones, according to a report.
Former Ironman Dean Mercer is remembered as a "champion bloke" and a loving father of four young boys, after he suffered a cardiac arrest and crashed his car on the Gold Coast yesterday morning.
An Indian judge hands a 20-year jail sentenceto self-styled "godman" Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, whose followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape last week.
A 38-year-old man is charged with several drug offences after Queensland police allegedly found an estimated $2 million worth of the drug ice hidden under a loaf of raisin toast in a camping fridge.
Quietly spoken and reserved, Mariah Calman isn't your typical rapper but when she enters the classroom that all changes and the "sense of positivity and optimism" she gets from teaching helps her connect with students and overcome crippling pain.
Pauline Hanson's recent burka stunt attracted criticism from all sides of Parliament, but a Muslim scholar and human rights adviser says it's the garment itself that's offensive.
A 68-year-old New Zealand beekeeper charged with smuggling more than two kilograms of pure cocaine into Australia is a good person who fell victim to online scammers, his lawyer says.
The father of a three-year-old girl who died in Sydney last night from gunshot wounds to her neck will face court for owning an unregistered sawn-off shotgun and contravening an AVO.
Kenyans producing, selling or even using plastic bags will risk imprisonment of up to four years under new laws which manufacturers say will have "very severe" impacts on their industry.
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