An actor on the US BET television show The Oval has filed a civil lawsuit that accuses media mogul Tyler Perry of repeated sexual assault and harassment. Derek Dixon is seeking $US260 million ($A402 ...

Economic pressures and personal and family relationship breakdowns are still the leading causes of distress for Australians ...

Australians are making the perilous journey to flee across Israel's borders as a conflict with Iran continues to escalate.

A state's solicitor-general has defended controversial laws that grant police the power to move protesters on from places of ...

Biosecurity officials are admitting defeat, saying it is no longer possible to wipe out a destructive species of tree-boring pest from a city's parks. The polyphagous shot-hole borer has proven too ...

University of Melbourne retained its position as the top-rated Australian institution but it took a six-place slide against ...

Israel has struck a key Iranian nuclear site and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital, as President Donald Trump kept the ...

The company behind the Helensburgh coal mine has locked miners out for more than a week as an industrial dispute escalates.

A man has been charged with murder after a veteran police officer was shot dead on the job. Tasmania Police Constable Keith ...

A woman sobbed as she told a jury of the moment her friend disclosed allegations he was raped by Gareth Ward, recalling that ...

A last-minute attempt to add $85,000 in spending to the Kiama Council budget has been branded as "irresponsible" by ...

Prosecutors allege Patterson, 50, intentionally poisoned her former in-laws Don and Gail Patterson, Gail's sister Heather and ...