While rumours continue to swirl that The Rolling Stones have already left Australia following the death of Mick Jagger's girlfriend, the band's iconic 'tongue' plane sits idle at Perth Airport. An official announcement from tour organisers is still yet to be made.

Fashion designer L'Wren Scott was in financial dire straits when she died. Company records reveal Scott's business, LS Fashion, was more than $A6.6 million in debt, an amount that had doubled since 2010. At the last minute, she had cancelled her February ...

British model Georgia May Jagger has pulled out of a fashion show in Melbourne after the tragic death of her father Mick Jagger's girlfriend, fashion designer L'Wren Scott. Georgia May Jagger was on board a flight to Melbourne from London when Scott was ...

Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have been detected for the first time, in a landmark discovery that adds to our understanding of how the universe was born, scientists say. The waves were produced in a rapid growth spurt 14 ...

The missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 turned back from its scheduled flight path over the South China Sea after its communications equipment was turned off and flew for more than seven hours, Malaysia's prime minister Najib Razak has revealed.

Conflicting stories have been swirling about what might be to blame for the mysterious disappearance of MH370. 1) Catastrophic explosion. Source: Aviation experts. Advertisement. Reasoning: Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanishes over the South China ...

Facebook headquarters secured after threat. Ever feel the rainy-day blues on a bright and sunny afternoon? If so, your Facebook account may be to blame, according to new research. In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists argued the ...

7:11pm: Witness continues to maintain he called Oscar Pistorius first, and the athlete said "everything is fine" before the line went dead. Pistorius called him back but "just cried". Mr Roux suggests Pistorius indicated HE was fine - as in, not hurt. But Mr Baba ...

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini accused his players of complacency after their shock 2-1 home FA Cup quarter-final defeat to holders Wigan, who beat them in last year's final. City's dreams of an unprecedented treble - or at least a domestic ...

Ellfie: Ellen DeGeneres, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Peter Nyong'o Jr., Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o and Angelina Jolie. Photo: AP Photo/Ellen DeGeneres.

BEIJING. China will "accelerate" negotiations for a free trade agreement with Australia, Premier Li Keqiang has said in his opening speech to the National People's Congress. Delivering his first government work report as Premier at the Great Hall of the ...

Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, to step up its efforts to provide internet access to remote parts of the world, according to reports. Techcrunch and CNBC cited anonymous sources who are familiar with the deal ...

US stocks have fallen sharply as investors recoiled from equities in the face of mounting tensions over Ukraine. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 153.68 points (0.94 per cent) to 16,168.03 on Monday. The broad-based S&P 500 lost 13.72 (0.74 per ...

Cate Blanchett has triumphed at the Academy Awards for the second time, winning best actress for her striking performance in Blue Jasmine. A golden awards season run culminated in an Oscar for playing a New York socialite whose life is disintegrating in ...

Heat extremes over land are occurring more frequently and with greater intensity, a climate shift partly concealed in global mean temperatures by cooling trends over the oceans, a new study has found. The research, conducted mostly by scientists based at ...

Pollution in Beijing was stuck at unhealthy levels for the sixth straight day, prompting warnings for people to stay indoors as thick grey smog shrouded the capital a week before the annual meeting of China's legislature. The concentration of PM2.5, the small ...

How WhatsApp got $21 billion out of Facebook · Facebook's $21 billion battle to stay relevant. WhatsApp plans to offer voice calls on its popular mobile messaging service, just days after agreeing to sell itself to Facebook in a $21-billion deal. WhatsApp chief ...

A Spanish astronomer says he witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever recorded. The rare episode was seen by Jose Maria Madiedo, a professor at the University of Huelva, Britain's Royal ...

Facebook snaps up WhatsApp · Wall Street backs WhatsApp sale. Australia's tyranny of distance and excessively expensive phone call charges are what transformed WhatsApp into the $US19 billion ($21 billion) company it is today, according to its ...

Mexico City: The half-dozen Mexican navy commandos who burst into room 401 of the Miramar condominium building in the beach town of Mazatlan found the world's most-wanted drug lord not armed to the teeth, but shirtless and curled up in bed with his ...