An Australian opposition party member has suggested a regime change in Myanmar if the generals continue to let the humanitarian crisis...

Cricket Australia (CA) is contemplating its own version of Indian Premier League (IPL) within two years after the inaugural Twenty20 tournament has become a mega-hit in the...

Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has confirmed his availability for the West Indies cricket tour, but he will miss the first Test starting next week, it was reported by the media here...

Canberra, May 17 : Astronomers have been baffled by the discovery of a star that lies 20,000 light-years away, spinning at a rate of 465 revolutions per second - the fifth fastest-spinning pulsar known in our Galaxy....

Melbourne, May 16 : Geotagging geeks are desperately waiting for the two new geographical map coordinate tattoos which will be added to the comely left shoulder of Angelina Jolie after she gives birth to...

Washington, May 16 : A joint University of Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospital study from Australia has found that over 40 per cent of parents have used cough medicine for children younger than two, even though it is not recommended, nor proven effective for children in this age...

London, May 16 : Aussie Penthouse Pet of the Year Kobe Kaige has stripped off for...

Melbourne, May 16 : Aussie employees better start looking for some reasons other than a sudden sickness to take a day off work, for lie detectors with a new generation of voice analysis systems used in the UK are all set to enter Down...

London, May 16 : Astronomers from UK Universities working with colleagues from Germany and Australia have calculated that the Universe is actually twice as bright as previously...

Melbourne, May 16 : Australian Federal Police (AFP) considered placing Indian born doctor Mohamed Haneef on a control order or in preventative detention just three days after he was arrested, but were advised there was insufficient information to support their...

A man remains in hospital after a head-on collision between a car and a log truck in Tasmania's south overnight. The incident happened just after 2:00am AEST at New Norfolk, north-west of Hobart. ...

West Indies skipper Chris Gayle will not play the first test against Australia. Photo / Getty Images JAMAICA - The West Indies have been dealt a critical blow just days out from the first Test...

The Police Arson Squad and forensic officers have returned to a home at Scarborough, Western Australia, to investigate the discovery of human remains. The body was found by firefighters in the early...

ATHENS -- Greece on Friday extradited Australia's most wanted fugitive, Tony Mokbel, to face a murder investigation and serve out a 12-year drugs sentence imposed by an Australian court. Police said...

A 16-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after been hit by a car on the Old Coast Road, near Dawesville last night. A police spokesman said the girl was walking west along the road...

Two serving New Zealand police officers, a former officer and a man believed to be currently serving in the Queensland police force face charges of conspiring to defeat the course of justice after...

Mokbel has been returned to Australia to face two murder charges, a string of drugs charges and to begin serving a nine-year prison sentence for importing cocaine.The white chartered Gulfstream jet...

Adelaide United striker Bruce Djite has completed a 50-minute training session in Adelaide, proving his fitness for next week's Asian Champions League match against Changchun Yatai in China. Djite...

A parliamentary committee dominated by Labor MPs has called for a bigger and urgent response from the Carpenter Government to the recommendations of a coronial inquest report into 22 indigenous...

WA's iconic fine dining restaurant train Spirit of the West will stop operating at the end of this month because of increasing costs. The train and its lovingly restored carriages have been in...

The NSW government has announced a $100,000 reward to solve the murder of a Sydney taxi driver, shot twice at the door to his Kellyville home in front of his six year-old son.Masoud Faroughi was...

Democrat Barack Obama accused President George W Bush on Friday of "fear-mongering" for suggesting Democrats wanted to appease terrorists and vowed to meet leaders of hostile nations like Iran if...

Mission Australia has admitted it has had problems delivering youth services in central Australia. Last year the organisation won an $8 million tender from the Federal Government to run youth...

ARSON is suspected to be the cause of house and car fires at Morningside, in Brisbane's inner southeast, overnight. Police said that about 1.15am a vehicle parked under a house...

WA's main real estate body has urged the State Government to bring forward stamp duty cuts on property purchases due to take effect from July 1 to provide an urgently needed shot in the arm to...

The Northbridge Link will not be funded for at least three years, Planning Minister Alannah Mac-Tiernan has conceded. The Minister has continued to spruik Government support for the $330 million plan...

A small flick went from refugee camp to red carpet as Sean Penn, backed by rock star Bono and film maker Michael Moore, brought an Australian aid worker's tsunami film to the Cannes Film Festival...

Bathed in red light with a swirl of stars behind, you could be forgiven for mistaking WA's iconic Pinnacles for another world. A 20-year interest in astronomical photography and a long night at the...

Three men carrying sticks in central Perth intended to cause fear, police say.Officers arrested the men near the William St entrance of the Bankwest tower at about 10.45pm.The homeless Perth men,...

The number of deaths on Tasmanian roads is down slightly on the same time last year. But the number of road deaths is up over the past five years. Across the country, 113 people died on the roads...

A 16-year-old girl is in a critical condition after a hit and run incident south of Mandurah. The girl was flown to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital last night after she was found on the Old Coast...

The Dalai Lama insisted on Friday he is not seeking independence for Tibet, as he pressed ahead with a five-country Western tour two months after deadly violence erupted in his homeland."We want to...

A QUEENSLAND man has come back from the dead - literally - after a taipan snake bite stopped his heart twice and left him in an overnight induced coma. Ken Wilson, 48, is still in pain after his...

Australia is losing some of the world most precious species due to climate change, but it is well-positioned to reach global targets to slow the pace of biodiversity loss, conservation group World...

Richard Green of Australia posted a two-over par 74 to slip to two shots off the pace at the halfway point of the Irish Open on Friday.Green, who fired seven birdies and just one-bogey in his opening...

With $13,000,000 and two and a half years, people in the Izard County city of Melbourne are ready to get into their newly built school "It's a facility that you dream about but never expect to...

Fremantle has conceded it may struggle to hold on to ruckman Robbie Warnock if he does not gain a regular place in the senior side. Warnock is off-contract at the end of the season and has been...

reports. With little negative news affecting sentiment, significant corporate developments, such as Westpac's move on St George, had delivered investors a fresh injection of confidence, traders...

A southern Tasmanian river been shown to contain pesticides in the latest round of chemical testing. 55 rivers and streams were checked in the quarterly testing last month. It is the State...

And the company said inflation would have been worse in recent years, if not for the high level of competition in the Australian retail sector. Woolworths boss Michael Luscombe told a business lunch...

THE closing bell overnight tolled the end of an era at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock trading floor, where, since 1983, traders dressed in colorful jackets have used an array of hand...

The Westin Brisbane Empire Square Hotel and Residences will open in 2012, offering a prime location in the state capital of Queensland. Adding even more depth to its rapidly expanding portfolio in...

THE price of oil rocketed to a record high point of $US127.43 ($136) per barrel overnight, as US President George W Bush prepared to urge Saudi Arabia to pump more...

SHARES in BHP Billiton surged to another record high yesterday on speculation that Chinese interests are angling to buy into the mining giant as an investment hedge against soaring commodity prices...

Safety officials are investigating a close call between an Indonesian passenger jet and a group of construction workers at Perth Airport last week. It is believed a Garuda jet inbound from Bali...

US CONSUMER confidence tumbled to its lowest in 28 years this month, a survey showed overnight, as short-term inflation expectations reached the highest levels since the stagflationary early...

The Australian , Mr Fegan said he expected that other banks in Australia and around the world would be watching the current takeover bid. He hit back at accusations that the St George board had...

Middle-order batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan will lead the West Indies against Australia in the first Test at Sabina Park, Jamaica next week. Dwayne Bravo was named vice-captain when the squad was...

BUSINESS believes corporate watchdog the Australian Securities and Investments Commission concentrates on easy targets, focuses on punishment at the expense of prevention and is too cautious about...

WALL Street wobbled to a mixed close today as fresh highs for crude oil prices and a weak reading on consumer confidence took the lustre off data showing a surprise rebound in US housing...