Each year, thousands of Chinese tourists take boats into North Korean territory to get a glimpse of life inside the rogue nation, and "take a look at how poor they actually are". But the venture may end under tough new UN sanctions.
The United Nations Security Council has stepped up sanctions against North Korea, imposing a ban on the country's textile exports and capping crude oil imports. Here's how they will work and what impact they will have.
A man claiming to be from the Australian Taxation Office gives an expletive-ridden spray to ABC presenter Nick Rheinberger after being told their conversation was being recorded.
Serious questions are being asked about the way refugee cases are considered after the Refugee Review Tribunal was found to have adopted a "cut-and-paste" approach to its rulings.
Government payments to keep Australia's oldest coal plant running would amount to a carbon subsidy. It's worth looking at the financial — and carbon — cost.
Australian children as young as four are being coerced into live-streaming and recording explicit videos and sharing sexualised images of themselves online. Officials say the number of reports of these cases is "literally exploding" and overwhelming police.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner says he is shocked and upset after a video emerged showing a person outside a tour company spraying a hose towards an Indigenous man sitting on a busy footpath in the centre of Darwin.
The world's biggest school-based volunteer travel company will no longer offer trips to orphanages in the developing world, after research showed the practice was harming vulnerable children. So what can you do if you want to volunteer overseas?
What do a pancake, a sea urchin and a football have in common? Australian scientists say they are all possible shapes of a galaxy, and that could help answer some big questions.
After years of predictable wins and categories filled with the usual suspects, this year there's some serious competition in the drama section at the Emmys.
After months of controversy and debate, security fences are now being installed around the grassy slopes of Parliament House, keeping patrons off the iconic and once-traversable roof.
The battle for control of the Ten Network turns ugly, with failed bidders Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon trading barbs with the receivers and US media giant CBS.
More than 10,000 people have already had their say as Australia's biggest bike-riding organisation looks into its longstanding support for mandatory helmet laws.
Directors of Australian companies will be given a unique ID number in a bid to crack down on "phoenixing", where companies are stripped of assets and liquidated, then restarted under a different name, leaving creditors out of pocket.
What to do with any family members of Islamic State group fighters shapes up as a major problem for Australian security agencies, as the wives and children of foreign fighters are found in Iraq and Syria.
Brazilian prosecutors are investigating reports that gold prospectors may have killed members of a so-called uncontacted tribe in the Amazon, after two of them were allegedly heard "boasting about the deaths" and parading "trophies".
Miss Texas and Miss North Dakota — now Miss America 2018 — have some choice words for Donald Trump after being dealt questions about his response to the deadly Charlottesville protests and the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate deal.
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