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Carnage ensued on a flight from Australia to Qatar when two men turned violent and had to be handcuffed while mid-air.

Australian police have charged three accountants for allegedly helping an organized crime syndicate obtain tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans, bringing the total number of people charged in the probe to 33, New South Wales Police said on Thursday.

Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever.

British rapper and social media influencer Yung Filly will face a retrial on three charges of rape after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his initial trial in Australia.

Media can reveal the strict bail conditions imposed on the so-called Scots College Three after two families retained globally recognised defamation lawyers.

The busiest airport in Australia has just received the green light for a multi-billion expansion project – expected to take 20 years to complete.

A First Nations woman allegedly murdered by her former partner at a house south of Brisbane contacted police earlier this month seeking help over allegations of domestic violence, police have confirmed.

British rapper and social media influencer Yung Filly has been found not guilty by a jury of raping a woman in an Australian hotel room.

Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.

Last year was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than 30 years, according to a new report, with 20 people being killed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

A horror injury to England’s Gabriel Langton overshadowed his team’s silver medal in the men’s team gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how the development of the Pauk (“Spider”) system went — and why it was stopped (at least for now)

A former Melbourne private schoolboy has been exposed as an alleged major supplier of cocaine to one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs.

High levels of Cold War "secrecy" were a factor in the haphazard approach taken towards the medical records of nuclear test veterans, an official report has found.

Police in Australia have released previously unseen photographs from their investigation into the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio 25 years ago.

A woman charged with murdering her four-year-old son walked into a police station and allegedly told cops she had cooked and eaten parts of him.

The Australian Space Agency has said the six so-called “space balls” found in north Queensland were likely from a “foreign rocket body” that had recently re-entered the atmosphere after being in orbit.

Two Ernst and Young employees have been sacked after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s personal banking information was allegedly breached while the pair worked for the accounting firm at the Commonwealth Bank.

A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.

The immediate suspension of Ian Vaevaso follows an investigative report revealing he destroyed confiscated methamphetamine before becoming top cop.

A young Brit golfer was left gobsmacked after she chased her golf ball to a hole on a UK course - only to find it had settled on a snake measuring a whopping six feet.

The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.

The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.