December 2, 2015 Australian prime minister 'confident' pings are from Flight 370 black boxes Authorities are confident that signals detected deep in the Indian Ocean are from the missing Malaysian jet's black boxes, Australia's prime minister said Friday, raising hopes they are close to solving one of aviation's most perplexing mysteries.
December 1, 2015 Burned-out van belonged to missing Australians, Mexican authorities say Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Sinaloa said Monday that the burned-out vehicle found with two charred bodies inside was registered in the name of one of two missing Australians.
November 25, 2015 Australian wildfire kills at least 2 and injures 13 others Out-of-control wildfires have caused at least two deaths, 13 injuries and have destroyed at least 16 homes near the southern Australian city of Adelaide, officials said on Thursday.
November 5, 2015 Suspected LulzSec hacker arrested in Australia could face 12 years in jail Australian police have arrested a man they say is affiliated with international hacking collective Lulz Security on a charge of attacking and defacing a government website, officials said Wednesday.
September 18, 2015 Tennis commentator asks female star to 'twirl' for crowd, draws backlash A sports interviewer who asked Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard if she would “twirl” around for the crowd following her Australian Open match Wednesday is causing international backlash on the Internet.
September 9, 2015 Australian leader vows to strike ISIS in Syria, says country will take in 12,000 refugees Australia will launch airstrikes against Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria within days and resettle an additional 12,000 refugees from the deepening humanitarian and security crisis in the Middle East, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday.
August 27, 2015 Australian survivor of World War II's 'Great Escape' dies at 101 Paul Royle, an Australian pilot who took part in a mass breakout from a German prisoner of war camp during World War II that is remembered as The Great Escape, has died in his hometown of Perth, his son said Friday. He was 101.
May 21, 2015 Australian police say they disrupted Melbourne bomb plot The teen was arrested on Friday afternoon in a joint federal-state police counterterrorism operation at his home in Greenvale where the devices were found, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan said.
May 21, 2015 Second shark attack in as many days kills surfer off Australia beach A Japanese national was killed Monday after a shark tore off his legs while he was surfing off Australia's east coast, not far from the area where another surfer was mauled by a shark a day earlier, officials said.
May 21, 2015 Ill worker begins two-week voyage from Antarctica to Australian hospital A seriously ill man has begun a two-week ocean voyage on an icebreaker from an Australian Antarctic base to a hospital in Australia, officials said Monday.
