British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the ...

MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe fell 6.17 points, or 0.71 per cent, to 856.93. The STOXX 600 index lost 1.98 per cent ...

Australia believes it can play a role in negotiating trade disagreements between the United States and China under a second ...

Patrolling police officers were shocked when they returned to their parked car to find a man answering the call of nature.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is quitting after coming under sustained pressure over his handling of a Church of ...

Major Wall Street indexes have closed lower as investors booked some profits from a post-election rally and turned cautious ...

A driver has rammed his car into a crowd at a sports centre in southern China, killing 35 people and severely injuring 43 in ...

Ongoing eruptions at Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano have caused ash clouds, creating a potentially dangerous ...

US president-elect Donald Trump says he is going to nominate former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to be the United States ...

Australian consumers can be forgiven for feeling angry and disgusted at the behaviour of Australia's second-largest telco - ...

Nicole Munger is still trying to work out the difference between Twenty20 and Tests. But, you know, "we don't play cricket in ...

The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year's UN climate summit, has lashed out at Western critics of his country's oil ...