Australian sprinter Torrie Lewis has made light of a stacked field and a headwind to smash her own national 100m record and storm into the semi-finals on day one of the world athletics championships ...

12-year-old William Yapp wrote a poem as part of a school project looking at paradigms, focusing on device usage. His poem ...

Boris Becker was asked by a prison doctor if he had been self-harming during his time in a UK jail.

Half a century after the Raggiana bird-of-paradise was officially first hoisted on black and red, Papua New Guinea remains ...

Poland and Romania have scrambled fighter jets in their airspaces because of the threat of Russian drone activity.

From Cathy Freeman's history-making gold on the track to Ian Thorpe's "Thorpedo" heroics in the pool, the Sydney Olympics ...

A massive London march organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson drew more than 110,000 people and became unruly, with ...

The Democrat-dominated legislature voted to reauthorise the state's carbon emissions cap-and-trade program, which is set to ...

Staying in Paddington - one of Sydney's most elegant neighbourhoods, far from the usual tourist traps - is one great reason ...

The Newcastle Jets appear to have won the battle of the codes by beating the Newcastle Knights to an Anzac Day blockbuster at ...

The new French prime minister has dumped his predecessor's debt-reduction idea to get rid of two public holidays.

Voters in the electorate of Kiama chose a new representative to state parliament after former MP Gareth Ward was forced to resign after being convicted of sexual and indecent assault in July. It is ...