Saturday Jul 4 09:16 AEST
19 mins agoA 25-year-old Sydney man has been charged with kidnapping a German tourist, who was allegedly threatened with a knife and robbed of his credit cards.
Saturday Jul 4 08:02 AEST
1 hours 33 mins agoSydney's Taronga Zoo has welcomed the first elephant calf to be born in Australia.
Saturday Jul 4 05:50 AEST
3 hours 45 mins agoNone of the houses promised for remote indigenous communities in 2007 as part of the Northern Territory Intervention has been built.
3 hours 46 mins agoThe cost of child care is expected to increase if recommendations being considered by the federal government are adopted.
Friday Jul 3 22:14 AEST
3 Jul 2009Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to match funds raised by Australia's Italian community to help victims of the earthquake that devastated Italy in April.
Friday Jul 3 19:31 AEST
3 Jul 2009Migaloo, the celebrity white whale, is expected to be cruising off the Sunshine Coast over the weekend.
Friday Jul 3 19:29 AEST
3 Jul 2009Four fairy penguins have been fatally mauled by a dog on Sydney's northern beaches, devastating local volunteers who work to protect them.
Friday Jul 3 19:20 AEST
By Melissa Iaria | 3 Jul 2009A Melbourne man who robbed an American poker player of $31,000 in winnings owed his co-offender money for the drug ice, a court has heard.
3 Jul 2009Three girls, one aged just 11, have been indecently assaulted in the same Sydney suburb in the past week, police say.
Friday Jul 3 18:37 AEST
3 Jul 2009A insomniac driver who fell asleep and veered onto the wrong side of the road, killing another driver, has been jailed for two years.
Friday Jul 3 18:09 AEST
By Jessica Marszalek and Tony Bartlett | 3 Jul 2009A helicopter pilot who died when his solo flight crashed in Queensland had earned his living as a volcano tour guide and race car driver, a colleague says.
Friday Jul 3 18:06 AEST
3 Jul 2009The George Cross medal, awarded posthumously to Australian prisoner-of-War Private Horace "Slim" Madden, has gone on display at the Australian War Memorial.
3 Jul 2009Two more alleged members of the Comancheros bikie gang have been charged over a fatal brawl at Sydney airport, police say.
Friday Jul 3 18:04 AEST
By Stephanie Gardiner | 3 Jul 2009HMAS Adelaide, the ship that came to the rescue of stranded yachtsmen and terrified asylum seekers, will be sunk to create a dive wreck off Terrigal in NSW.