Australia

At least one person has died as a result of record-breaking cold winters combined with flash floods. On Thursday, Australians in the east of the country awakened to violent and icy winter conditions, with flash flooding...

Australia has announced a dramatic cut in the number of people who will be permitted to enter the country Friday, as it struggles to hold coronavirus clusters that plunged major towns into lockdown. With almost half...

The outback town of Alice Springs became the latest Australian population centre to lockdown on Wednesday, as anger mounts over the country’s slow coronavirus vaccine rollout. The usually busy streets of Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin...

Two nude sunbathers in Australia have been fined for breaching Covid rules after they got spooked by a deer and had to be rescued from bushland. The men, who were sunbathing on a beach south of...

Roads in Sydney, Australia’s largest city, became uninhabited on Saturday as a week-long lockdown began over control of a highly contagious Delta variant. Authorities warned that restrictions could be tightened. More than 60 people have been...

More than 800 people have been arrested in 18 countries worldwide on suspicion of being involved in organized crime to trap through an encrypted messaging app operated by the FBI, law enforcement officials announced. According to...

A gigantic dinosaur discovered in Australia’s outback has been identified as a new species and recognised as one of the largest to ever roam the Earth, according to palaeontologists. The Australotitan cooperensis, part of the titanosaur...

Australia’s three Olympic women marathoners boast a combined age of 118, and the eldest of the group Sinead Diver is adamant that being 44 isn’t a hindrance. The mother-of-two will incredibly be making her Olympic debut...

More than five million people in Australia’s second-biggest city of Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown Thursday, as officials blamed a sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine failures for another virus outbreak. Stay-at-home orders...

Australia is likely to remain shut to visitors until late 2022, the country’s trade and tourism minister said Friday, as another global coronavirus surge smashed hopes of a quick reopening. Minister Dan Tehan said a wave...