A private charter plane has crashed into a major shopping outlet in Melbourne after taking off from Essendon Airport, killing all five people onboard. The pilot, a veteran aviator, and his four passengers, a group of American golfers touring the world ...

Obama says ready to accelerate "smooth transition"1:23. U.S. President Obama says his team is ready to accelerate a smooth transition for President-elect Donald Trump and his team, saying "this office is bigger than any one person." November 15th 2016 ...

Two men and two women were killed on Tuesday in an accident at a water ride at Australia's biggest theme park, Dreamworld on Queensland's Gold Coast. Two children aged 10 and 12 watched their mothers die along with two men after their raft struck ...

Four people have died and others seriously injured after an accident on a ride at Dreamworld, north of the Gold Coast. 6 HOURS AGO | 5.56pm Scene of the accident. Police and ambulance officers attend the scene at the Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapid ...

Four people have died and others seriously injured after an accident on a ride at Dreamworld, north of the Gold Coast. 6 HOURS AGO | 5.56pm Scene of the accident. Police and ambulance officers attend the scene at the Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapid ...

Four people have died and others seriously injured after an accident on a ride at Dreamworld, north of the Gold Coast. 6 HOURS AGO | 5.56pm Scene of the accident. Police and ambulance officers attend the scene at the Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapid ...

Four people have died and others seriously injured after an accident on a ride at Dreamworld, north of the Gold Coast. 6 HOURS AGO | 5.56pm Scene of the accident. Police and ambulance officers attend the scene at the Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapid ...

Four people have died and others seriously injured after an accident on a ride at Dreamworld, north of the Gold Coast. 6 HOURS AGO | 5.56pm Scene of the accident. Police and ambulance officers attend the scene at the Dreamworld's Thunder River Rapid ...

MICROSOFT has offered its first glimpse of its Windows 10 software that it hopes delivers a winning formula for powering tablets and smartphones, along with laptops and desktop computers. The US software colossus focused on its core business market ...

MICROSOFT has offered its first glimpse of its Windows 10 software that it hopes delivers a winning formula for powering tablets and smartphones, along with laptops and desktop computers. The US software colossus focused on its core business market ...

HONG KONG demonstrators rejected demands to immediately end rallies that have paralysed the city, braving rainstorms to turn out in swelling numbers before a national holiday today expected to put their campaign for free elections into overdrive.

THE counter-terrorism police units working with the FBI have dramatically expanded the war against home-grown Islamic extremism, arresting one man accused of bankrolling terror groups operating in Syria and Iraq and signalling that more arrests were on ...

THE share market's gains for 2014 have been wiped out, the value of the country's biggest export is at a five-year low and the Aussie dollar has slipped below 89 US cents - all thanks to China. OR at least, worries about China. The iron ore price has slumped ...

The United States has hit Russia's top bank and leading energy and technology companies with sanctions, restricting access to finance and technology to punish Moscow's support for Ukraine's separatist rebels. In its latest round of sanctions, Washington on ...

SERENA Williams has drawn level with legends Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert by winning her 18th grand slam title in New York. Pitted against close friend Caroline Wozniacki, the American legend started in brilliant fashion and maintained the ...

JACK the Ripper was a Polish hairdresser called Aaron Kosminski, according to an author who claims to have identified the Victorian serial killer using DNA evidence from a 130-year-old shawl. Kosminski, a 23-year-old immigrant, lived in the East End of ...

THE United States has confirmed that the leader of Shebab militants in Somalia was killed in a US air strike this week, in what the White House called a major blow to al-Qaeda's network. The death of Ahmed Abdi Godane is “a major symbolic and operational ...

RUSSIA is now “directly involved” in fighting in Ukraine, the US ambassador in Kiev has said. “An increasing number of Russian troops are intervening directly in fighting in Ukrainian territory,” Geoffrey Pyatt wrote on Twitter, on Thursday, adding that Moscow ...

RICHARD Attenborough was an actor, the Oscar-winning director of Gandhi and an unflagging pillar of British cinema. Baby-faced as a young actor and white-bearded in his older age, Attenborough — known as Dickie — presided over six decades of British ...

AN Israeli airstrike on Gaza killed two Palestinians and wounded five yesterday, as a series of attacks signalled a new tactic in the seven-week conflict. The strike hit the western side of Gaza City about 5am (12pm AEST), a day after Egypt called for an ...