Despite having an evolutionary history of more than 150 million years and surviving the extinction of dinosaurs, the leatherback sea turtle is critically endangered in the Pacific region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing for talks with Xi Jinping the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the US.
Carol Clay's daughter became concerned her mother's affair with Russell Hill would be made public when police approached her about telling media they had gone missing together, a jury has been told.
The man accused of murdering schoolgirl Charlise Mutten sent a string of violent voicemails to her mother threatening to kill her if she didn't return his car to him.
A Sydney council's decision to ban books featuring same-sex parenting has been reversed after a fiery chambers session and a standoff between protesters.
A massive manhunt is continuing for a fugitive gangster in France, a day after he was sprung from a prison van by gunmen in an attack that killed two prison guards.
France has declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia after three young indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform.
Gunmen ambushed a prison van in France on Tuesday to free a drug dealer, killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
A bus carrying farm labourers in northern Florida collided with a pickup truck and overturned, killing at least eight people and critically injuring eight others, authorities say.
A court will be told more about the movements of Charlise Mutten's mother and alleged killer in the days before her disappearance in the Blue Mountains.