Three dogs are impounded after a 42-year-old Kane Minion — who had worked as a meter reader for seven years — is killed at a property in Logan, south of Brisbane, on Saturday morning.

Baggage handlers who were filmed laughing and throwing luggage onto an airport conveyor belt are stood down by company Swissport for the "disrespectful behaviour".

The West Indies have a mammoth victory target of 498, but captain Kraigg Brathwaite is showing remarkable fight with the bat as the first Test in Perth heads towards a fifth day. Look back at all the action from the penultimate day's play ...

An explosion in fan interest has prompted the government to open up one of Melbourne's stadiums for fans to watch the World Cup clash between the Socceroos and Argentina on Sunday morning.

A delegation of six federal politicians from Labor and the Coalition will travel to Taiwan, but Anthony Albanese says politicians travelling to the island is not unusual.  

There are 21 Catholic public hospitals across Australia. These women say they were deprived healthcare on religious grounds.

Ricky Ponting is out of hospital and back at Perth Stadium for commentary after suffering chest pains and dizziness during the first Test against the West Indies.

The Queensland Indigenous Womens Ranger Network is awarded 1 million pounds ($1.8 million) with the prize, which aims to encourage people to solve the world's environmental problems.

UN High Commissioner Volker Türk says at least seven university students were sentenced to death in Myanmar behind closed doors.

Bridget Archer was the only member of the Coalition to vote to censure the former prime minister. In so doing, she showed her colleagues the way forward, writes Laura Tingle. 

A young mother dies after being hit by a car in Perth's east as another woman remains in a critical condition after she was struck by a police car in Northbridge overnight.

The NSW government is facing another pre-selection debacle after the far-right lawyer expected to replace the Transport Minister was dumped in a shock move by the Liberal Party.

The Rainbow Wave Festival is back in Pambula for its third year, in a bright celebration of inclusiveness and pride for the LGBTIQ+ community.

A lack of exercise facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe, has meant residents have had to improvise — and the leafy, multi-faith Warren Hills cemetery is proving a popular venue for many keen to work up a sweat.

Rearing water buffaloes has been a way of life in Iraq's southern marshes for generations, but politics and droughts that experts say are exacerbated by climate change risk ending that.

Floods are critically important for many plant and animal species, but scientists fear back-to-back extremes of flood, fire and drought are causing significant environmental damage — and say we don't know the full picture.

The Queensland Human Rights Commission says 60 per cent of discrimination complaints dealt with last year related to invisible disabilities. 

Brittany Higgins became a lightning rod for those angry about the scourge of sexual assault allegations in Australia when she first claimed to have been raped. But the charges against Bruce Lehrmann, the man she had accused of sexually as...

In the final day of closing arguments, the prosecutor argues Donald Trump authorised an array of perks and payments for top executives at the Trump Organization.

Chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and Chess.com urge a US court to toss out a libel suit brought against them by teenage grandmaster Hans Niemann, who Carlsen has accused of cheating. 

Jonathan, the world's oldest known living land animal, will enjoy a birthday cake made from all his favourite food and the printing of a special stamp.

Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose says he has ended his tradition of throwing his microphone into the audience at the end of concerts after a woman was injured when one hit her on the nose in Adelaide during the week.

Turkish-made drones carry laser-guided bombs and are light, cheap and supremely deadly. Here's how they have become instrumental in changing Russian President Vladimir Putin's fortunes in Ukraine.

Aviation firefighters halt a planned strike that was set to cause airport chaos, after coming to an agreement with their employer to address staff shortages.

The Australian shopper is now in a game of chicken with the Reserve Bank as interest rates rise. So, David Taylor asks, how will spending, and saving, habits change?