Category Archives: World

Australia is facing the possibility of a ferocious bushfire season because of vast areas of grass which have grown across the country in the wake of recent rains… Continue reading →

Austrian police are investigating claims that a man locked up his two mentally ill daughters in a small room in their home and sexually abused them for 41 years… Continue reading →

Channel Nine’s director of news in Brisbane has resigned and three journalists have been sacked for faking reports about the search for Daniel Morcombe’s remains… Continue reading →

Warring tribes on the tiny Pacific island of Tanna have agreed to swap two children to settle a long-running land dispute that descended into violence.
The clans, who have been arguing over property rights on the island for more than two decades, revi… Continue reading →

Russian investigators say a high-ranking retired police officer who allegedly organized the 2006 murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been arrested — potentially the breakthrough her family and friends have been waiting for afte… Continue reading →

Christchurch City Council has laid out an ambitious, decade-long plan to rebuild the city after last year’s devastating earthquakes in the region. The plan includes free citywide Wi-Fi, an augmented reality memorial and a central ICT precinct… Continue reading →

The math is impressive. In the last 25 years, the population of Singapore has nearly doubled, to more than five million… Continue reading →

The Philippines has deployed the army to try to quell an outbreak of violence between two different factions of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)…
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The whereabouts of a remote Amazonian tribe who appeared in remarkable footage earlier this year aiming bows and arrows at a plane flying over their jungle homes was unknown Monday after government officials sent to protect them were forced to abandon… Continue reading →

A ticket on a high-speed train to Melbourne or Brisbane would cost between $75 and $197 for a journey taking about three hours, a major federal government-commissioned study has found… Continue reading →

A Tribune review of sexual abuse cases involving several Theravada Buddhist temples found minimal accountability and lax oversight of monks accused of preying on vulnerable targets… Continue reading →

The man behind Norway’s massacre described the former Australian prime minister John Howard as ”one of the most sensible leaders in the Western world” ,according to an online version of his 1500-page manifesto… Continue reading →

Cases of heatstroke in Japan have hit record levels as people switch off air conditioners in the summer heat to save power after the nuclear crisis… Continue reading →

A dentist who was ordered to pay more than $1.3 million for damage he caused to a patient’s mouth is continuing to practise in NSW, despite his own lawyers calling him negligent and incompetent… Continue reading →

The case against eight former police officers accused of conspiring to “mould, manipulate, influence and fabricate evidence” after the murder of a woman who was working as a prostitute has been opened… Continue reading →

The number of British children abducted by a parent and taken to a country beyond Foreign Office protection has risen by 10% in the past year, it says… Continue reading →

A motivational speaker has been found guilty over the deaths of three people who fell ill during a meeting at an Arizona “sweat lodge”… Continue reading →

A visiting American evangelist who claims healing powers has walked from a NSW court without even a fine despite driving 110km blind drunk and crashing into a parked car… Continue reading →

An underground bus terminal could solve the peak-hour logjam that turns one of the city’s major arteries into a commuter nightmare, says a leading authority on transport… Continue reading →