The World Health Organization says the PNG outbreak is linked to strains circulating in Indonesia, posing a serious risk to other countries in the region.

The Australian soldier who rushed four German machine-gun nests has been named an honorary citizen of the Somme

Australian twin sisters Bridgette and Paula Powers hope their resurgent fame from a viral video will help raise awareness about their efforts to save seabirds and pelicans.

An independent candidate challenging a minister is pointing to Labor's silence on a mass grave found in Gaza...

Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime Some of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two eyewitnesses. The witness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Continue reading...

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Israel’s defense ministry says the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of Damascus in neighboring Syria.

The two-decade-old internet calling service disrupted the landline industry and changed global communication, but in May it will go offline for good.

Lakemba's famous Ramadan food markets began as a haven set up by and for the Muslim community two decades ago. Now a cultural mecca for wider Australia, some feel it no longer represents what the Isla...

Australia's race discrimination commissioner has condemned alleged attacks on two Muslim women as "unprovoked and distressing" while Fatima Payman has said responses to the incidents expose a "double ...