Four people have been arrested in California amid allegations they used a life-sized bear costume in a pricey insurance fraud ...

Electoral reform will set an $800,000 candidate spending cap and a $20,000 ceiling for individual donations, but they won't ...

"Social rewilding" has been named the top trend of the year as more Australians choose to get offline and support child ...

Smelly, thunderous, lingering or silent, Australians are being asked to log their farts for science. The CSIRO is hoping to capture flatulence data from tens of thousands of people, including ...

There’s another important reason to avoid mosquito bites: millions of people around the world suffer from mosquito-borne ...

US president-elect Donald Trump has shocked even some on his own side of politics with two appointments to his new cabinet.

The furore over Australia’s ambassador to Washington, Kevin Rudd, is a “self-licking ice cream” created by some at Sky News, former defence chief and former ambassador to the United States, Dennis ...

Freak storms have brought snow to a region of Saudi Arabia for the first time. Heavy rain and large hailstones began falling in the desert country’s Al-Jawf region last week, turning vast ...

Donald Trump’s election win was viewed as a devastating loss by a large portion of women across the US. For these women, battle plans to survive the next few years range from hoarding ...

Kristian White says he acted lawfully when he tasered an elderly woman carrying a knife. Photo: AAP A police officer believed he needed to stun an elderly woman with dementia symptoms after ...

A woman has been charged with robbery offences as police investigate the events leading up to a crash that killed a Queensland grandmother. Rosemary Franzidis, 69, died after a high-impact ...

Safety concerns are being raised after a wind farm worker was fatally crushed by a fallen fan blade on a Victorian construction site on Monday. The 36-year-old local man was working at Golden ...