Australia

An Australian sperm donor is the legal father of an 11-year-old girl after being actively involved in her life, Australia’s top court has found.

The brothers shot by police during a confrontation in Victoria’s north-east were of interest to counter-terrorism investigators.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is the fifth highest paid leader in the world, ahead of other high-profile figures like German Chancellor Theresa May and Vladimir Putin.

Australian prosecutors are arguing that Cardinal George Pell’s conviction for child sexual abuse is “unimpeachable”, on the final day of his appeal hearing.

Australian police have raided the headquarters of the country’s public broadcaster ABC.

The family of a US man who died of dehydration while in jail will receive $6.75m (£6m) from Milwaukee County and a private company that ran inmate care.

An Australian man who raped a British backpacker during a month-long kidnapping ordeal in outback Queensland has been jailed for 10 years.

Ken Wyatt was chosen this week to be Australia’s minister for indigenous Australians, the first Aboriginal person ever to hold the role.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is close to securing a majority government as the election’s final results are being counted.

The Chinese diaspora in Australia, long regarded as a politically apathetic ethnic minority, are being wooed like never before by political parties for next week’s general election.

Australians will vote in a general election on 18 May, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced.

Australia will fine social media companies up to 10 percent of their annual global turnover and imprison executives for up to three years if violent content is not removed “expeditiously”.