
Japan cancels next Antarctic whaling hunt
Japan is keeping its word and cancelling its next Antarctic whaling hunt for the first time in more than 25 years.

Bad luck is my co-pilot: Daniel Ricciardo dudded again
Daniel Ricciardo arrived at Red Bull in a blaze of promise and hope. On a Sunday afternoon in March, at his home...

100 days without a boat, but PM has long journey ahead
Tony Abbott has celebrated 100 days without a boatload of asylum seekers reaching Australian shores, but experts warn the problem of people...

Houston best man to search for plane: PM
Former Defence force chief Angus Houston will co-ordinate an international search effort for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

HSU boss Michael Williamson gets at least 5 years jail
Former union boss Michael Williamson has been jailed for at least five years for defrauding the HSU of almost $1 million and...

Abandoned in Burger King, baby finds Mum 27 years on
A US woman, who became known as the Burger King Baby after being abandoned as a newborn, has been reunited with her...

Labor’s rising star steps aside, for now
Paul Howes says he has no immediate plans to enter federal politics, but won't rule anything in or out for the long...

SA minority government is ‘illegitimate’, says Pyne
Liberal Minister Christopher Pyne says the state election result shows the electoral boundaries favoured Labor.

Cause of skydive disaster ‘unknown’, tributes flow
Transport investigators have started trying to piece together why a small plane crashed, killing five, on a skydiving flight in Queensland.

US spy agency caught snooping on China tech giant
The NSA began targeting Huawei in early 2009 and quickly succeeded in gaining access to the company's client lists and email archive,...