Researchers have found two-spot octopuses always use the second tentacle from the middle of their body to launch an attack.

As relatives of the dead mourn after one of the worst ever stadium tragedies, attention has turned to the hunt for answers.

Indonesia’s president has suspended the top football league after at least 125 people were killed in a crowd crush.

Finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng announces reversal amid financial turmoil and threat of party revolt.

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Save The Children Australia CEO Mat Tinkler speaks to 9News on the plan to repatriate Australian families from detention camps in Syria.

The new British prime minister was supposed to be enjoying a honeymoon period, but the Tories are already in meltdown.

Controversy has erupted at an Ohio fishing tournament after fish were discovered to have metal weights inside them at a weigh in.

The survival of Brazil’s right-wing president sets the stage for the most important vote in decades for Latin America’s largest nation.

Two men have been charged over the alleged attack on Prince Andrew's heckler in Scotland

65 years ago, Russia’s launched the first man-made satellite, signalling the dawn of the Space Age. Sputnik’s launch wounded America’s “national ego” and was likened to a “bloodless Pearl Harbour”.

Ukraine’s army is winning back territory almost as fast as Russia claims to have taken it over. How are the latest twists in the Ukraine crisis unfolding? And why is everyone talking about nukes?

A neighbour's doorbell security camera has captured the moment a helicopter crashed in a Californian yard, hurting a pilot and passenger.

Watch the anger unfold after contestants in a fishing competition are found to have added weights to their fish ahead of judging.

The new prime minister distanced herself from her government’s controversial tax policy, describing it as a decision made by the chancellor.

A Sherpa has filmed an avalanche rolling across base camp on the world's eighth highest mountain.

Video captured the moment – “We got weights in fish!” – that scandalised the lucrative Cleveland fishing contest.

Joshua and his friends were seated in the stands when fan frustration turned into violence and tragedy at a top-flight soccer match.

Russia’s loss of the eastern city of Lyman, which it had been using as a transport and logistics hub, is a new blow to the Kremlin.

With its “no judgment” ethos and legacy of inclusion, the world’s biggest queer women’s gathering has become a safe space for a whole new generation.