Australia

An enormous, 1,600-foot-tall coral reef was discovered in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, scientists announced Monday, in the first such find in more than a century.

Australian biologists are racing against the clock to save around 270 pilot whales that are stranded on a sand bar off the island of Tasmania.

Authorities will investigate whether a dead tiger shark caught in a net off an Australian beach killed a surfer

Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS in the sand that was spotted from above

Russell Crowe talks about his rugby team kneeling to shed light on Australia’s negative colonial history.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says a “sophisticated state-based cyber actor” is targeting Australia in an escalating cyber campaign threatening all levels of government, businesses, essential services and critical infrastructure

Australia’s prime minister apologized on Friday to critics who accuse him of denying the country’s history of slavery, as a state government announced it will remove a former Belgian king’s name from a mountain range as part of a global re-examination of racial injustice. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the legacy of British explorer James Cook, who in...

Australia’s prime minister apologized on Friday to critics who accuse him of denying the country’s history of slavery, as a state government announced it will remove a former Belgian king’s name from a mountain range as part of a global re-examination of racial injustice. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the legacy of British explorer James Cook, who in...

Tens of thousands of people have rallied in cities from Asia to Europe, to honor George Floyd and voice their support for the Black Lives Matter movement

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in the middle of a news conference when a man asked if he and the media could move back from his grass outside his house

Tear gas choked Paris streets as riot police faced off with protesters setting fires amid growing global outrage over George Floyd’s death in the United States

Frustration and anger could be seen on streets across the country Monday night, the seventh night of protests against police brutality spurred by the death of George Floyd. Terrance Floyd, George’s brother, made an emotional plea for the violence that has marred many of the demonstrations to end.

Police in Sydney are looking for a man who broke into the Australian Museum in Sydney. CCTV shows the man walking around the museum taking photos with dinosaur bones.

More than 30 years after American mathematician Scott Johnson died after falling off a cliff in Sydney, a man has been charged with his death in an apparent gay hate crime that was apparently one of many over several decades in Australia’s largest city

Cardinal George Pell has welcomed Australia’s highest court clearing him of child sex crimes and says his trial had not been a referendum on the Catholic Church’s handling of the clergy abuse crisis

Tom Hanks says he has the “blahs” but no fever as he and his wife Rita Wilson remain in isolation after contracting the coronavirus.

Tom Hanks, who is currently in Australia, announced the news via Instagram.

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are isolated in stable condition in an Australian hospital Thursday after contracting the new coronavirus, the actor and Australian officials said.

Devastated after again being targeted at school for his dwarfism, a sobbing Quaden Bayles repeatedly told his mother that he wanted to die. The 9-year-old Australian’s deep distress went viral on social media after his mother, Yarraka Bayles, posted a six-minute video clip. “This is what bullying is doing and I want people to know how much this is...

General Motors says it’s pulling out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don’t produce adequate returns on investments, dismaying officials concerned over job losses