North Korea's biggest nuclear test to date draws international condemnation, with Donald Trump labelling the move "hostile and dangerous" and his Defence Secretary warning any threat to the US will be met with a "a massive military response".
David Eubank has spent 20 years on the frontline of some of the world's bloodiest wars. That's not unusual for a former US special forces soldier like him, but David brings his wife and children wherever his humanitarian mission takes him.
North Korea may well have in its possession a bomb that could change the world, chief foreign correspondent Philip Williams writes, but as global leaders scramble to respond, what can they actually do?
More than a decade before the deadly Grenfell tower fire in London, Australian suppliers of aluminium composite cladding knew the product they were selling was highly flammable.
Walter Becker, co-founder of the influential jazz-rock band Steely Dan, dies aged 67, according to his website, which did not disclose the cause of death.
Everyone who is anyone in NSW education (outside of the state government and its bureaucracy) seems in agreement: the linkage of year 9 NAPLAN results with HSC eligibility is an ill-conceived mistake, writes Anne Susskind.
The Socceroos are not merely carrying our hopes of a World Cup party in Red Square next year, but of keeping the game in the national consciousness, writes Richard Hinds.
Money generated by a private fundraising project was used to pay for training, fraud awareness, and a cybercrime education program featuring Fiscal the Fraud Fighting Ferret — but the head of Queensland's corruption watchdog says the fund made him "very uncomfortable".
Explosives experts defuse a massive World War II bomb in Frankfurt after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes in Germany's biggest evacuation since the war era.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott estimates the damage from Hurricane Harvey will reach up to $225 billion, calling it more costly than epic hurricanes Katrina or Sandy while fuelling a debate over how to pay for the disaster.
Senate President Stephen Parry is today expected to formally push for a stricter Senate dress code after One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson wore a burka in the Chamber.
The mother of the 11-year-old girl shot in the face in northern Tasmania last week says her daughter has woken from her coma in high spirits despite having bullet fragments lodged into her neck, brain, heart and lung.
A Canberra lawyer is barred from practice after he was jailed over a dodgy deal where he charged Legal Aid and his client's mother for the same services.
Twelve people suffer serious burns in an incident at the Red CentreNATS racing event in Alice Springs where fuel sprayed from a car that was doing burn-outs.
Even heading up the highway at speed, it is hard not to notice two dead dogs strung up by their tails from a tree at the roadside. But why exactly does it happen?
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