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Convicted sex offender, who raped man with learning difficulties, has had egg thrown at him by angry protesters as police escorted him from his home.

Penny Wong is refusing to say whether Australian personnel were on board a US submarine which sank an Iranian warship overnight, insisting the Government does not discuss deployments.

Punch the baby orphan macaque is so popular a zoo near Tokyo has had to set rules to make visitors be quiet and limit viewing times to 10 minutes.

A former Royal Australian Navy officer says the destruction of the Iranian frigate may have been intended to warn China about the costs of launching a broader war.

A week after inmates cheered while double child murderer Ian Huntley was brutally attacked, police have issued an update on his condition.

A concerned wife backed her gut feeling and the ‘Find My iPhone’ app when her husband disappeared after a massive avalanche in the US.

Anthony Albanese has called for Iran to ‘cease’ attacks as DFAT crisis response teams head to the Middle East to provide on-the-ground consular assistance to Australians stuck there.

Shocking CCTV footage has emerged showing the moment a malfunctioning elevator suddenly surged upward as a man stepped out.

Careful planning, massive firepower and the overwhelming success of the attack on Iran belies the the US’s bumbling over dubious and contradictory reasons

In 29 months the Middle East has been revamped on a scale comparable to the Arab Spring or the carving up of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

US President Donald Trump has provided an update on the US military action ‘wiping out’ Iran’s leadership and a disturbing reminder about their quest for a nuclear weapon..

Escalating conflict in the Middle East could disrupt flights for months, but there are alternative flight routes to avoid the region.

WATCH: A torpedo launched from a US Navy submarine struck a vessel in combat, sending the Iranian frigate Iris Dena to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.