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Margaret Dale Hawke killed her children aged 10, seven and four months, then set their house on fire and walked out. She appeared distraught in court and sobbed as details of the murders were revealed

Warwick Tollemache, 35, from Brisbane in Australia, was on the Quantum of the Seas cruise ship when he fell overboard around 870 miles south of Hawaii

Osman Shaptafaj killed his estranged daughter Lindita Musai and her husband Veton Musai on New Year's Eve in 2019. His lawyer argued his sentence was too harsh but an appeal to reduce it was refused

A passenger on board the Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas said: "A lady heard a scream, went out onto the balcony and saw him drop past, hit the tender below and fall into the water"

The driver and pedestrian were both assessed but they were pronounced dead at the scene, New South Wales Police said in a statement after the crash in Sydney, Australia

Experts say Simon Nellist's death was a "provoked incident" because sharks had been drawn to the area where he was swimming off the coast of Little Bay near Sydney

A disturbed shopper spotted the muscular man diving into the chicken straight out of the supermarket packaging at the shopping centre in Australia

Australian influencer Bianka Ismailovski sparked outrage after she posted a video of herself twerking to commemorate Anzac Day

Dean Holland was a veteran of Australia's horse racing circuit but was killed after being thrown from his ride during a race meeting in Donald, with the rest of the day's running cancelled

Trent Innes, the CEO of software company Compono, said his 'coffee cup test' can lead to a candidate being turned down as it proves whether they have the right attitude to work for his company

Sky gazers along the Exmouth Peninsular of Western Australia were amazed by the solar eclipse when the sun was completely covered by the moon, casting a 25-mile shadow

Nathaniel Roberts was jailed for five and a half years for getting a 15-year-old pregnant. He is now appealing his sentence, with his lawyer arguing that it is too harsh

Keana Mokbel, 25, whose uncle Tony Mokbel is serving 30 years on drugs charges, died when her vehicle ploughed into a tree in Heidelberg West, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia at around 8.50pm on Sunday

Lucas Helmke completed the challenge at his local gym in Brisbane and did an average of over 53 push-ups per minute, completing more than 3,000 in an hour

The 29-year-old was sitting in his ambulance at McDonald’s, on the outskirts of Sydney, as he and his colleague took a break towards the end of their night shift before he was stabbed

The Colt family were found living in shocking conditions in isolation four hours outside of Sydney, Australia, with brothers and sisters parenting children together

Cyclone Isla is sweeping across the Indian Ocean with wind speeds of almost 200 mph and is expected to continue its destructive level as it hits Australia's west coast

Erin Gilbert, 42, died after suffering serious injuries in her Sydney apartment in Australia. Police launched an investigation to determine the cause of her death and find the killer

The 'Colt' family - the pseudonyms given by courts including the surname - is alleged to have engaged in four generations of incest starting with Tim and June, and expanded to around 40 family members

Four people have died after a two-vehicle crash in Jeir, New South Wales, Australia, with a fifth man, in his 20s, in critical condition in hospital

Terence Darrell Kelly, 37, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison after abducting four-year-old Cleo from the Western Australian Blowholes campsite in 2021

The 26-year-old unnamed man was captured on CCTV with another woman boarding a train at Morayfield Station in Queensland, Australia on Tuesday morning with the animal wrapped in a towel

The woman sat down on her couch before feeling searing pain in her body, which she later found had been caused by the assassin bug - which uses its venomous saliva to paralyse its prey and is found across Australia

The man was sleeping on the sand when he was bitten on the foot and then travelled in the night to a hospital in Queensland, Australia, where he has since been discharged

Terence Darrell Kelly, 37, was found to have a severe and complex personality disorder and had injected methylamphetamine on the night he stole four-year-old Cleo Smith in Australia