A 16-year-old has been arrested after a man was stabbed to death and another injured at a Church of Scientology complex in Sydney, Australia. The violence on Thursday followed a “domestic incident” that took place a day earlier, according to authorities. Police said both victims were church employees. The man who died was believed to […]

A missing man in Australia may have been found dead 18 months earlier had search teams not relied on wrong Google Maps information, a coroner has noted. Darrell Simon, 46, was last seen in November 2014 at his partner’s house about 80km (50 miles) west of Brisbane. Search crews scoured Mr Simon’s nearby rural property […]

They are toxic invaders that have conquered swathes of northern Australia as they continue their seemingly irrepressible march west towards the Indian Ocean. Packed with poison and supremely adaptable, the dreaded cane toad, or Bufo marinus, has few friends in Australia, where a massive scientific and community effort has failed to stop their advance. “They […]

Sometime in the middle of 2012, a friend of Neil Prakash asked the young Australian if he was religious. “I’m a Buddhist,” said Prakash, “but I believe there is a god, a deity”. “You are not a Buddhist then,” replied the friend, “you are confused”. The simple exchange marked the beginning of a journey, literal […]

Australia’s most wanted jihadist, Neil Prakash, has been stripped of his Australian citizenship. Announcing the move, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton described Prakash as “a very dangerous individual”. Intelligence officials say Melbourne-born Prakash was a recruiter for the Islamic State (IS) group and encouraged terrorist plots in Australia. He is currently being held in Turkey […]

On Monday, Christmas Eve, hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes in a 38-storey tower in Sydney, Australia, when a huge crack was found in its wall. Authorities later found the split in a support wall on the building’s 10th floor. Engineers estimated it caused parts of the building to shift by up […]

The husband of Lynette Dawson, a Sydney woman whose disappearance has been the subject of a popular crime podcast, has been released on bail after his arrest for her alleged murder. The 70-year-old denies killing his wife, saying that she abandoned the family for a religious group in 1982. The story of her disappearance is […]

An Australian government minister has resigned from his position over allegations of inappropriate conduct. Andrew Broad, a junior minister, used a “sugar baby” website to meet a woman for dinner in Hong Kong last month, Australian magazine New Idea reported. The government said Mr Broad had quit “due to the nature of the allegations” against […]

A woman in Australia was forced to give birth alone in a locked prison cell in a “degrading and high risk” incident, a report has found. The woman, identified only as Amy, had told staff two hours earlier that she believed she might be in labour. There were no complications at the birth. The March […]

SYDNEY, Australia — The Facebook group was supposed to be a fun distraction from high school exams. Its creators, a crew of Melbourne students who had bonded over weekends in Chinese language school, had noticed a Facebook group called “Subtle Private School Traits.” They started joking about their own experiences: the struggles and joys of […]