Consider it a space balloon launch fail. In the Australian outback Thursday, the launch of a giant space balloon went horribly wrong when a heavy payload of scientific equipment broke off, causing it to be dragged across the ground, and ultimately...

A man charged with trying to kill a Danish cartoonist was arrested last year in an alleged plot to harm U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, officials said.

A giant iceberg is drifting towards Western Australia, impressing scientists with its capacity to travel so far north while still largely intact. Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young says the iceberg, named B17B, is 1700km...

Two men have been arrested for people smuggling after 64 Kurds were found in the back of a lorry in Styria. Graz police said today (Weds) two men, an Austrian and a Turk, which they had detained this morning (Weds) were the masterminds of the people...

An Australian woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter. Justice Robert Allan Hulme called the girl’s death “unimaginably heartless and cruel” as he sentenced the 36-year-old mother...

A plane crash in Papua New Guinea yesterday killed all 13 people on board, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told Parliament today after rescue teams found no survivors in the wreckage. The Twin Otter Airlines PNG turboprop crashed at about 5,500...

An Australian MP raped a woman on a velvet couch in his office during a late-night tour of parliament, a court has heard. Theo Theophanous, a former cabinet minister in the Victorian parliament, is charged with raping the woman in 1998. At a committal...

Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart diseases such as heart failure? A new University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center study suggests so.

If you’ve taken the plunge and jailbroken your iPhone, you have access to more apps than the average iPhone owner. Popular apps such as Cydia and Installer provide access to numerous other apps that Apple refuses to provide to App Store...

Imad Mughniyah, who was assassinated Tuesday in Syria, was a man of the Middle East’s shadows. He was a terrorist mastermind behind political causes. For him, though, it was as much about the fight as the cause. He shunned the light. He never gave...