Australia

In the short term, antiviral treatments could help patients recover earlier than letting the disease run its course.

New South Wales police claims that soiling the public space was not a criminal offence.

The mother of two children and her partner have been found guilty of drugging and sexually exploiting their children since they were aged five and three.

Firefighters found the body of a two-year-old girl inside a car which was on fire in Western Australia.

An Australian rugby star burnt his estranged wife and three young children to death before committing suicide.

Thiem is attempting to secure his first Grand Slam title.

A kangaroo impaled with a fence post is suspected to have been killed by angry motorist.

A 21-year-old British backpacker fell to her death at Sydney's Diamond Bay Reserve after she and her friends climbed over the safety fence to get closer to the edge of the cliff.

The search for the remains of great white shark attack victim, Gary Johnson, led to the discovery of the remains of a 21-year-old footballer who had been swept out to sea in Western Australia.

Thousands of camels and feral horses are being culled over a five-day period in drought-hit South Australia.

Expat from Melbourne has been charged with the murder of his wife in Singapore.

A search has been launched to recover the body of a diver who was reportedly fatally attacked by a great white shark off Cull Island, Australia.

The man who fatally shot newlywed Lindita Musai and her husband, before trying to kill himself, is reported to be the Lindita's father.

A farmer in New South Wales was left shattered when he had to euthanise some of his cattle after they were horribly burnt by the bushfire still raging in parts of Australia.

Zara and Mike Tindall are heading to Australia in January.

As part of the British Airways Magic campaign, the company flew a cancer survivor and her family to attend her uncle's wedding in Australia.

Bushfires have devastated koala habitats and breeding populations to the extent where researchers believe that the species can be termed as "functionally extinct".

Abandoned dog with a rough past is now a part of the animal rescue team looking for koalas and wallabies which have survived bushfires in Australia.

Hundreds of koala bears perished in Australia due to bushfires.

While snorkelling off Australia's Whitsunday coast, two British men were attacked by a shark.

Steve Irwin's family has fulfilled his wish of opening an elephant hospital in Indonesia to help conserve endangered Sumatran elephants.

Incumbent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was forced to hold the leadership ballot. He did not contest and later confirmed his intention to quit politics.

The Commonwealth Bank, Australia's largest bank, admitted one of its advisers charged a dead client service fees for a decade.

A one-year-old baby girl has died after her family pet dog attacked and killed her on 3 March. Ambulance crews worked on her but she died on the way to hospital.

One of two students who plotted to poison a classmate has been allowed to return to school in Victoria, Australia, forcing the victim to file a restraining order and eventually move schools.

British woman Jemma Lilley, who was "obsessed with serial killers", is sentenced to life imprisonment for "bucket list murder" of autistic teenager Aaron Pajich in Perth, Australia.

A six-month-old baby has died after his mother's fiance allegedly through him against the wall when mistaking him for a spider.

Scientists recently collected over 100 deep sea species off the coast of Australia.

National Bureau of Investigation agents had found sex toys, used condoms, sex pills and computers with pornographic materials in a raid in 2013.

Frankie, short from Frankenkitten, was found with a deformed eye that needed to be removed and an extra set of ears. Now he's found a loving home.