Australia

A major hunt is underway after a 30-year-old inmate escaped custody from a Sydney prison while being transported to hospital.

Arthur Freeman, the depraved father who threw his four year old daughter off the West Gate Bridge to her death, has been brutally attacked inside a maximum security prison.

Bruce Lehrmann has lost his final bid to overturn his defamation loss to Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson, with Brittany Higgins declaring “finality to a painful chapter”.

Police investigating the death of a man last seen alive on AFL grand final day have made four new arrests.

One of Sydney’s busiest hospitals was put on high alert after the man was allegedly assaulted with a hammer.

Regions in the far north of Australia still recovering from a battering at the hands of cyclone Narelle have been warned to prepare for another huge weather event. 

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Police hope a $1 million award for information will help shed light on the murder of a woman who was found with burns and severe injuries two decades ago.

The teenager was left with dozens of cactus spines in his body.

One of America’s most gruesome murder investigations has been solved after a former architect admitted to killing at least eight women and depositing their bodies at various beaches.

Police and emergency services evacuated an apartment building after reports of a shooting.

‘Our family has experienced a tragedy that no parent should ever endure.’

Riders were left at a steep angle for hours while the theme park coordinated their rescue.

Former prime minister John Howard has weighed in on the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith, saying the decorated war veteran deserves the presumption of innocence as he faces five war crime charges.

Anthony Albanese’s temporary halving of petrol and diesel taxes has lifted a key consumer sentiment reading from its worst results since records began in 1973.