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Australian police announced Wednesday that they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app used by criminals, resulting in dozens of arrests.

An Australian court sentenced a 29-year-old man to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims from several countries, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.

It is the second Sea World ride to jam in the last week

A helicopter has crashed into the top of a hotel in Cairns City, Australia, sparking mass a evacuation zone - with Queensland police declaring a Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) in the area

Britton, a renowned zoologist, was sentenced at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Australia, by a judge who had to warn the gallery that details of his offences could cause a "nervous shock".

National Gallery of Australia director sent a warning to federal arts minister that mining billionaire was ‘rallying’ influential friends, documents reveal

Supporters and family members, including his father, John Shipton, and wife, Stella Assange, gathered in Canberra to welcome him

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Video shows the devastating impact of riots in New Caledonia

Riots erupted in New Caledonia after France approved voting reforms unpopular with the French territory’s indigenous population. The following violence led to six deaths and left hundreds injured.

UK mining company reveals breakup plan in bid to avoid takeover by Australia-based BHP

Prominent Fiji-based businessman Zhao Fugang is a trusted advocate for China’s interests in the Pacific.

A teenager who stabbed a British mum to death after breaking into her home in Australia has been jailed for 14 years.

COPS shot dead a "radicalised" 16-year-old boy who stabbed a man in a car park.

A 23-year-old man has died after he was allegedly tortured and partially buried alive at a farm in Queensland, Australia.

Men intercepted travelling on fishing boat off Gladstone in what federal police say is one of the state’s largest cocaine busts

He then allegedly tried to kill himself while lying awake next to her

Studying the tall, wired fences that stood starkly around the perimeter of the shabby grey stacked buildings, Thanush Selvarasa had only one thought: prison.

The suspect arrested after a Bishop and worshippers were attacked in a church in Sydney is a 15-year-old boy, it’s been confirmed.

Five of the six people stabbed to death by Joel Cauchi, 40, in the Westfield Bondi Junction complex were women.

Another heroic civilian tried to stop the knifeman on an escalator

Several people have reportedly died in a major incident at Westfield shopping centre in Bondi, Sydney, as local media in Australia report it is being treated as a suspected terror incident

The dad bravely jumped into the water to save his daughter

The gruelling journey includes 20,000 miles and 21-hour flights just to get there

Seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, the charity’s founder said on Tuesday.