The Syrian air force deliberately bombed a United Nations humanitarian aid convoy in September in what appeared to be a "meticulously planned" attack that amounted to a war crime, U.N. investigators said Wednesday in a report detailing a range of war crimes committed by forces on both sides of the c...

Bullish and cautious aren't usually words found in the same sentence, but coking coal miners are "excited" about the outlook.

"I thought, oh gee, I don't have the experience, I don't know enough, and now I'm thinking, 'oh'."

The Dow rose past 21,000 for the first time as investors grew increasingly confident global economic growth is accelerating.

China has ordered steel and aluminium producers in 28 cities to slash output during winter, amid a war on smog.

Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, 59, was the second-ranking official and was a son-in-law to al-Qaeda's founder, Osama bin Laden.

Eric Abetz has called for workers' existing rates to be protected.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik lost a human rights case on Wednesday when an appeals court overturned a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman.

In perhaps one of the more bizarre feats of activism to ever cross the music industry, anti-animal cruelty organisation is calling on iconic Aussie rockers Hunters & Collectors to change the band's name. 

Two retired Zimbabwean cricketers have engaged in a brutal social media exchange.

Scandals are cruel. Dogged by a trio of Russia-related rackets, Donald Trump learnt late on Wednesday local time that, inevitably, they control a president.

The euphoric Trump trade has been replaced by solid global economic data signalling the global economy is on the mend.

Liberal National Party stalwart Jeff Seeney has announced plans to retire from politics. 

In a discovery that could help find evidence of life on other planets, researchers from the University of Western Australia have helped analyse fossils now confirmed as being the world's oldest.

Hollywood's notoriously slow response times mean that we can expect to see a good many films this year made in confident anticipation of the Hillary era.

Residents of Melbourne's west think they've been getting a rotten deal.

A fire in an abandoned factory in Footscray may be a triple homicide, with the blaze in the tiny alcove where three squatters were living being treated as suspicious by arson detectives.

The AFL has unveiled a raft of changes to its executive team ont the eve of the season, headlined by the appointment of Simon Lethlean as the new general manager of football operations.

Australia has turned up empty handed to a major international conference which has pledged more than a quarter of a billion of dollars for women affected by US President Donald Trump's global gag rule on abortions.

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