Former Australian test cricket star Stuart MacGill might still be jailed, but he has been spared a potential life sentence over his role in a $330,000 cocaine deal that led to his violent kidnapping.
A tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military was struck by a container ship off northeast England, igniting a blaze and multiple explosions and forcing both crews to abandon ship.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Western Australia after an online threat alluding to a terrorist massacre against a recently opened Sydney mosque.
Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, has died alongside his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog at home.
A pilot alerted authorities to a live Chinese navy drill in the Tasman Sea last week that forced 49 planes to change paths, including a Sydney-Chch flight directly warned by the Chinese military to avoid the airspace.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he is willing to give up his position if it means peace in Ukraine, adding he could exchange his departure for his country's entry into the NATO...
Pilots of a jet that flipped upside down upon landing in Toronto are experienced and familiar with flying in wintry conditions, the airline's CEO says.
Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia in hospital, is in a stable condition and has shown "slight improvement" in results from recent blood tests, the Vatican says.
President Trump signed an executive order to cut US financial assistance to South Africa, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Israel.
A Christchurch man who lost 55 relatives in three Israeli airstrikes on Gaza says his remaining family will never leave the area, despite a US proposal to remove them.
France is to launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine.
A friend who was with a New Zealander when she was allegedly set on fire by her ex-partner in Australia is glad she was able to be there with her friend.
President Donald Trump will soon sign executive orders removing DEI from the military and reinstating thousands of troops who were kicked out for refusing Covid vaccines.
Auschwitz survivors have warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism, as they mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp in one of the last such gatherings of those who experienced its horrors.
Prince Harry claimed a "monumental" victory over Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group after the publisher settled his lawsuit, admitting unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time...