Australian PM Julia Gillard fought off attempts to challenge her place at the top of the Labor Party by calling a surprise leadership ballot. She won unopposed after Kevin Rudd, the predecessor she ousted in 2010, declined to enter. A triumphant G...

In a painstaking investigation, this report amassed compelling evidence to finally uncover the identity of Prisoner X, sending shock-waves around the world when it broke the story. A unique insight to the case. In early 2010 a man was escorted to...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard rushed to Tasmania to tell local residents that the nation is standing by them in "every way" after a pair of bush fires destroyed some 100 homes.Though the fires continue to rage out of control there were s...

Looks like American politicians aren't the only ones who put their feet in their mouths. Australian Labor Party member of Parliament Steve Gibbons has apologized to a Liberal female colleague after calling her a "narcissistic bimbo" in a tweet. He...

Abducted into Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, boy soldier Julius Achon managed to escape after a year then racked up miles running in competitive races to snag a scholarship to a US university, and qualify for the Olympics. But he never forgot th...

Tens of thousands of Aussies whooped and cheered as they were treated to a total eclipse of the sun — but you can see the dramatic event in a replay. The moon begins to completely block the sun beginning at 6:22 into this clip from Australia...

Australian Energy Minister Martin Ferguson's speech unveiling the government's new energy policy was interrupted by two stage-crashing climate change protesters. The pair, who accused Ferguson of being a puppet of the coal industry, resisted effor...

Julia Gillard has used a call by Tony Abbott for the Government to remove Peter Slipper as Speaker to attack the Opposition Leader for hypocrisy, labelling him a misogynist.

The UK Government has announced a cull of badgers in an attempt to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis despite criticism of the idea's effectiveness and its impact on the iconic nature of the badger, including from some well-known voices.

Animal welfare groups are angry that more than 20,000 Australian sheep are still stranded on a ship in the Persian Gulf after being rejected by their Middle Eastern buyer.