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 ...

Someone in Adelaide has ended their year $20 million richer and may not know it yet after hitting the jackpot in last night's Powerball draw. The mystery ticketholder holds the only division one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The man was charged with two counts of public display of prohibited Nazi symbols or giving Nazi salute, two counts of damaging Commonwealth property and two counts of offensive or disorderly ...

A Canberra teenager has been charged with allegedly performing Nazi salutes in public, as well as trespassing and defacing ...

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 ...

Henson says compulsive gamblers have a damaging mindset.

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 ...