Former Ironman Dean Mercer is remembered as a "champion bloke" and a loving father of four young boys, after he suffered a cardiac arrest and crashed his car on the Gold Coast this morning.
A report shows the cost of Government IT systems has jumped to nearly $10 billion — despite not resulting in better outcomes for the public — because public servants prefer old, familiar solutions to newer and more innovative ones.
A 68-year-old New Zealand beekeeper charged with smuggling more than two kilograms of pure cocaine into Australia is a good person who fell victim to online scammers, his lawyer says.
Pauline Hanson's recent burka stunt attracted criticism from all sides of Parliament, but a Muslim scholar and human rights adviser says it's the garment itself that's offensive.
Texans are warned to brace themselves for "unprecedented" rainfall of up to 1.3 metres, as record floods, tidal surges and tornadoes hit communities already devastated by Tropical Storm Harvey.
The father of a three-year-old girl who died in Sydney last night from gunshot wounds to her neck will face court for owning an unregistered sawn-off shotgun and contravening an AVO.
The Ten Network will be purchased by the US-based broadcasting giant CBS, with the company to launch the digital subscription video on-demand serviceCBS All Access in the Australian market.
Dwayne Justin Lindsey was high on ice when he allegedly murdered his girlfriend's infant son while she went shopping at Kmart in the early hours of the morning, a Melbourne committal hearing is told.
Donald Trump was seeking a deal with Russia to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow during the lead-up to the presidential primaries, according to a Washington Post report.
A foster carers' backyard pool where toddler Braxton Slager drowned was "distinctly green in colour" and installed without approval, an inquest into the child's death hears.
A colourful cult leader known as the 'Guru of Bling' and is about to be sentenced in India for raping two of his followers and it's got parts of the country on edge.
The cost to rent a house in the iconic outback town is on par with Sydney, leaving many tenants struggling to find an affordable home and skipping town altogether — or slipping into homelessness.
The widow of gangland killer Carl Williams wants to run against Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at the next federal election, motivated by the "so many wrongs" done to her, but her bid could be doomed before it even begins.
Police arrest a 28-year-old man as part of their investigation into an attempted bag snatch in Sydney's inner-west, in which an elderly woman successfully fought off her attacker but was left with a fractured skull.
Beachgoers in Sussex suffer breathing difficulties, stinging eyes and vomiting after a mist witnesses say smelled of chlorine "rolled in out of nowhere".
Prince Harry criticises the photographers he says caused the accident that killed his mother Princess Diana and took photographs of her "dying on the back seat" instead of coming to her aid.
More than 1,000 people are killed after a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and minister say during services honouring the disaster's victims.
Force India's drivers hate each other after two Belgian Grand Prix collisions which prompted foul-mouthed rants. Amid the turmoil, Daniel Ricciardo says he massages and talks to his car in a press conference laced with innuendo.
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