The "formidable and tireless" former federal Labor minister Nick Bolkus has died peacefully on Christmas morning. Bolkus was the first Greek Australian to serve as a cabinet minister, held ministerial ...

A Rabbi's car displaying a Happy Hanukkah sign was firebombed in his driveway on Balaclava Road in St Kilda East about 2.50 yesterday morning. A woman and three children were evacuated from the house ...

The investigators say they also found 13 plastic bags containing dead dogs in three refrigerators in the home. "Several of the deceased animals were in varying stages of decomposition," the police ...

Trump has focused for the last several months on the plight of Christians in Nigeria, including calling in November on his secretary of defence to "prepare for possible action" and warning the US ...

ABA CEO Simon Birmingham urged Boxing Day shoppers to remain vigilant as shopping scams are more common at this time of year. "It's prime time for shopping scams. Boxing Day is one of the busiest ...

But over three harrowing hours, Steven Spielberg made one of the most affecting films ever - about Schindler and the thousands of lives he saved. It's a story about a tiny flicker of hope within the ...

Syrian security forces have also launched operations against IS in recent days, including two raids on the outskirts of Damascus, the Syrian capital. In those raids, Syrian officials said Taha ...

The quick but intense storm cut power to 6000 homes across Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Somerset regions, with Energex crews currently trying to restore power. Southport was one of the worst impacted ...

A woman has been charged after blowing three times the legal limit with children in the car following a Christmas Day crash in Sydney's north-west. Emergency services were called to the crash on Ninth ...

Charles and Queen Camilla, along with the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, and their children, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte, and extended family walked to St. Mary ...

The bins and bathrooms were not coping with the massive crowds, which continued to stream in right into the evening, after the traditional backpackers bash at Bronte Beach was cancelled in the wake of ...

Christmas festivities have returned to Bondi, less than two weeks after the devastating terror attack killed 15 people.