Strong earnings results from reporting companies failed to stem the tide of a falling market, the big miners and the bigger banks pulling the index into the red.

Lionel Patea has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his former partner Tara Brown on the Gold Coast in September 2015.

A suite of changes to Australia's hate speech laws will be proposed but it will be up to the PM whether the government acts.

The 89th Academy Awards suffered a serious blunder on Monday, with presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty reading out the incorrect winner for Best Picture.

The Western Freeway at Mount Coot-tha is down to one lane and the Legacy Way tunnel closed after a truck fire.

A swimmer has been bitten by a bull shark at Coral Bay.

Nathan Cleary's introduction to rugby league was enough to turn most away from the game for life. At a local park in Auckland six years ago, a scrawny 13-year-old son of a gun picked up a football for the first time - taking on bearded men in an open age game that would be the making of a teenage pr...

Max Baucus expressed frustration with the Obama administration's weakness but also accused Donald Trump of having 'not even graduated from high school' on China.

La La Land has a record 14 nominations for the 89th Academy Awards, but will Lion roar or Moonlight step out of the shadows to prevent the musical sweeping all before it? Stay tuned for our blow-by-blow account as it happens.

For roughly the 147th time its nearly 10 years on air - spanning the entirety of Australia's Pin The Tail On The Donkey era of national governance - Q&A got right down to business on Monday with a debate about which donkey the tail might next be pinned upon.

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Berkshire Hathaway increased its stake in iPhone maker Apple to about 133 million shares, chairman Warren Buffett told CNBC.

Former ABC managing director David Hill has held back tears as he told a British inquiry of the sexual abuse and suffering of children sent from the UK to work at Australian farm schools.

BHP Billiton and striking workers at its Escondida copper mine have resumed talks in an effort to reach a wage agreement.

The Philippines on Monday condemned the "barbaric beheading" of a German captive by Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf militants, who posted a video of the killing after a deadline for a ransom passed.

Former President George W. Bush, in his first interview since the start of Donald Trump's administration, said he sees a need for an investigation into the Trump team's ties to Russia and voiced skepticism about his successor's approach to immigration and the media.

Fortescue Metals and Apollo Global are reportedly among the bidders for Wesfarmers's Australian coal operations.

Ali, who converted to Islam from Christianity in his 20s, is the first Muslim actor to win an Academy Award.

The age of Donald Trump is alive and well in Hollywood as the red carpet – the grand final of awards season – was a safe yet gloomy affair.

A home building company that once sponsored the St Kilda Football team has gone into administration with the loss of 90 jobs.

The Pap smear has served Australian women extremely well and resulted in one of the lowest rates of cervical cancer in the world.

In his shorts and green prison smock, he began "I'm a little tea pot short and stout", and concluded "tip me over, pour me out".

Dozens of officers from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are searching a property in the south-western NSW town of Young.

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​The body of a 38-year-old man who went missing while swimming in a dam near Brisbane on Sunday has been found.