December 3, 2015 Australian charged after car hits US embassy gates A man has been charged and will face court Thursday after a car crashed into the gates of the US embassy in the Australian capital Canberra while ambassador Jeffrey Bleich was at home, police said.
December 3, 2015 2 US couples reportedly banned from leaving Thailand with surrogate babies Several couples from the United States and Australia have been prevented from leaving Thailand with surrogate babies as part of a government crackdown on the burgeoning commercial surrogacy industry, an Australian broadcaster reported Friday.
December 3, 2015 Marshall to quit NRL and 'switch rugby codes' New Zealand international standoff Benji Marshall, one of the superstars of Australia's National Rugby League, has sought an early release from his contract with Wests Tigers, the club said Monday.
December 3, 2015 PNG makes BHP liable for environmental damage from mine Papua New Guinea's government wrested full control of the controversial Ok Tedi copper and gold mine and quashed former owner BHP Billiton's legal immunity for environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
December 3, 2015 Australia's richest woman bids to end family feud Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has offered to end a messy legal battle with two of her children for control of a multi-billion dollar family trust by appointing a co-trustee, according to reports.
December 3, 2015 Australia pledges more cash to battle reef starfish Australia pledged another Aus$5 million (US$4.6 million) to the fight against a predatory starfish devastating the iconic Great Barrier Reef Thursday, revealing 100,000 of the creatures had been wiped out so far.
December 3, 2015 Australia's PNG asylum-seeker solution takes effect The first asylum-seekers to be sent to Papua New Guinea under Australia's hardline new boatpeople policy arrived Thursday, with the government declaring people-smugglers no longer have a product to sell.
December 3, 2015 Australian killer of Irish woman jailed for life A serial sex offender was on Wednesday sentenced to life for the "savage" rape and murder of an Irish woman in a Melbourne street, a random killing which shocked the nation and led to an outpouring of emotion.
December 3, 2015 Shock as Australian baseballer gunned down by US teens An Australian family was Monday struggling to come to terms with the "senseless" death of their baseballer son in a random drive-by shooting by three teenagers in the United States.
December 3, 2015 Malaysia jet searchers fail to pick up signals heard over the weekend Crews trying to locate the whereabouts of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been unable to relocate signals consistent with those emitted by cockpit voice and flight data recorders that were picked up by Chinese and Australian ships over the weekend, the former Australian official in charge of coordinating the search said Tuesday.
