An Indian woman gave birth to a healthy boy aboard a jet airliner while flying to Australia to reunite with her husband.

Darwinian Theory of the ‘Survival of the Fittest’ claims that all organisms, including humans, have reached their current stage of development through a series of...

Aborigines won traditional ownership rights over a large stretch of coastline in northern Australia on Wednesday, in a landmark ruling lawyers said could set a...

Pope Benedict XVI began a pilgrimage in Australia Sunday, saying he wants to use his visit to raise awareness about global warming and to address the crisis of clergy...

Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Australia where he will attend the World Youth Day festival.The pope landed in the northern city of Darwin Sunday morning after a more...

Drinkers at an Outback watering hole may have wondered if perhaps they’d had one too many when they were greeted by a crocodile at the pub’s door.But being...

An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said...

A man rescued his wife from the jaws of a crocodile in remote northern Australia by jumping on its back, police said Thursday.The woman, 36, suffered leg and hand...

Seven historic Aboriginal paintings were stolen Tuesday from an Australian museum then recovered hours later after the thief apparently changed his mind and dumped them...

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was slowly being returned to consciousness by doctors who have kept him sedated since he was shot in an assassination attempt last...

An Australian teenager blamed the influence of marijuana for his decision to steal two crocodiles and a monkey, local media reported Wednesday.Benjamin Glen Watts, 19,...

A judge ruled Wednesday that a hospital can remove a car accident victim from life support against his family’s wishes, saying the patient was unlikely to...

A senior Australian lawmaker who was once handcuffed in his underpants to a pole during a drunken night in a Russian strip club said Wednesday he had learned from the...

A notoriously dangerous type of jellyfish is believed to have killed a 6-year-old boy who died within minutes of being stung while swimming off a tropical northern...

It was in the 1930s, Australia took up to wipe out toxic amphibian - the toads - from the land. For the job, it employed an environmental group, which since then has...

Jetstar will replace regular Qantas services on the Cairns-Darwin-Singapore route from October 29. This will help increase capacity on the route by about 10 percent, or...

Cane toads have wrought havoc on Australia’s indigenous animals. It is in the 1930s, these toxic amphibians have been brought to the country from Hawaii to help...

While on the one hand, climate change is threatening our long-term future on the planet, on the other, scientists are claiming it to have helped bring us into being in...