Hollywood actor and director Robert Redford dies at 89
Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford has died at his home in Utah aged 89.
Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford has died at his home in Utah aged 89.
A mother who left three children aged under five at home alone minutes before a fire engulfed the property and killed two girls has been freed on bail.
The names of two officers accused of unlawfully killing a man who died following an arrest last year can be revealed as they faced court for the first time.
The deaths of two boys on usually quiet suburban streets has the hallmarks of a youth gang attack as detectives hunt for up to eight offenders.
Tributes are flowing for a surfer mauled to death in a rare city shark attack as a net-free beach trial is put on hold until the incident in fully investigated.
Two beaches were closed after a tagged shark was detected in the area, while others have yet to reopen following a fatal attack that killed a "hero" surfer.
A young mechanic has become emotional while describing how he saw his friend dangling upside-down from a plane before a fatal skydiving fall.
The grieving parents of a boy killed when a woman drove through his school fence have called for legislative change to make sure drivers are held accountable.
A talented student about to hit her teens has been identified as the girl who died in a bus rollover and is being remembered for her infectious personality.
Heavy rains across the Himalayan mountains have killed at least 34 people in the last 24 hours in India.
A small town has been told to stay vigilant as it slowly re-opens after days of lockdown sparked by a search for a fugitive accused of shooting dead two police.
The parents of a young boy killed as he sat at a school picnic table have questioned why the killer driver only faces a careless driving charge.
Video of tandem skydivers getting snagged on a plane mid-air has been played in court, as a company director faces charges over their deaths.
Police are deploying every available resource as they hunt for an armed and dangerous gunman accused of killing two police officers and wounding another.
Onlookers have described hearing loud bangs similar to gunshots as police return to the scene where a dangerous fugitive gunned down two officers.
The sovereign citizen movement in Australia is growing and a related pattern of extreme violence will continue unless there is a crackdown, an expert says.
Childhood friends involved in a late-night brawl that ended in a 23-year-old's death deny ever talking about who threw the killer punch.
Accused police killer Dezi Freeman has been urged to surrender as inclement weather hinders the search for the fugitive in difficult bushland terrain.
An emergency declaration has been revoked after two men died on a rural highway in a head-on collision between heavy vehicles.
Family members of a slain Indigenous teen left a courtroom as CCTV of a fatal collision between a police car and a boy was played during an officer's trial.
Apprentice sparky Evander Tuala was punched to the ground by an unknown person, then kicked while unconscious during a fatal brawl, his inquest has been told.
Accused murderer Steven Johnson has been released on bail after a Supreme Court judge ruled he had exceptional circumstances.
Wildfires are burning in southern Europe as millions of people across the continent struggle to adapt to searing temperatures in excess of 40C.
A homeless man has faced court over the alleged murders of a pregnant woman and her partner, whose deaths have shocked locals in the usually quiet area.
A man accused of stabbing a woman to death was covered in blood and had some of his organs hanging out of his torso, a witness has told a murder trial.
An accused murderer claims he was not in control of his actions when he stabbed a woman to death after taking an illicit drug to manage pain.
A Supreme Court judge has released his pre-trial rulings more than a month after mushroom cook Erin Patterson was convicted of triple murder.
Father Chris Riley had a heart as big as the country he served, the prime minister said, after the Youth Off the Streets charity founder died aged 70.
Sam Backo has been remembered a Queensland State of Origin great and selfless man off the field, after dying at age 64.
Prosecutors have successfully sought to restrain mushroom cook Erin Patterson's property after she was found guilty of murdering three people.
A woman's body found in a creek marks the fourth grim discovery in less than a week at one of Australia's most popular beach locales.