Australia

A number of residents are still missing in northern NSW after a bushfire, which police believe was deliberately lit, destroyed more than a dozen homes in the Rappville area.

Police will investigate a suspicious blaze that destroyed at least 15 homes in a rural hamlet in northern NSW.

Australian children will be part of a world-first study to understand the impact digital technology is having on their first eight years of life.

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been formally arrested on espionage charges in China after months of detention, Australia has confirmed.

Sydney CBD is in lockdown after at least one woman was stabbed at a hotel in the heart of the city.

A human bone has been discovered near a Port Macquarie beach almost a month after another bone was found in the water at the same beach.

Two Australians and a Spaniard have been gored by a bull that broke from the pack during the final bull run of this year’s San Fermin festival.

The body of an Indian student missing in a Victorian tourist town for four days has been found.

A series of aftershocks have been recorded off the coast of Broome after yesterday’s 6.6 magnitude quake rattled Australia’s north-west.

As day breaks, the search for a missing student in a small Victorian town has recommenced.

An experienced policeman who assaulted a 16-year-old girl at a Perth police station to “punish” her has been ordered to pay more than $3000 but granted a spent conviction.

A mother has spent 15 frantic minutes separated from her baby after the doors of a Melbourne Metro train closed.