A self-styled Muslim cleric sent hate mail to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, reports said Thursday, prompting sharp condemnation from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Rudd said the front-page revelations, including claims one...

An Australian man has been charged with incest after he allegedly raped his daughter almost daily and fathered her four children over a 30-year period. The man, who has been called “Australia’s Fritzl” after the notorious Austrian incest case,...

A SCHOOLBOY squabble during morning recess escalated into a brawl that has left a 15-year-old NSW schoolboy dead. Detectives and forensic specialists descended on Mullumbimby High School in northern NSW and declared the playground a crime scene after...

The resource is clean, renewable and vast. In fact, it covers 70 percent of the planet. That would be the ocean, with endless waves and ceaseless tides that can be harnessed to create electricity with zero carbon or particulate emissions. If logistical,...