South Korea is reporting 1,842 newly confirmed coronavirus cases for the previous 24 hours — setting a new pandemic single-day record for the second straight day

Police have fined two men who had to be rescued from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost

Parts of Sydney will go into lockdown late Friday as a coronavirus outbreak in Australia’s largest city continued to grow

A plague of mice that has ravaged vast swathes of eastern Australia has forced the evacuation of a prison while authorities repair gnawed electrical wiring and clear dead and decaying mice from wall cavities and ceilings

Australia says it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists are applauding the U.N. World Heritage Committee’s proposal

Australia's prime minister says the World Trade Organization should penalize China for “bad behavior when it occurs.”

An Australian court has rejected a challenge to the federal government’s draconian power to prevent most citizens from leaving the country so they don’t bring COVID-19 home

The leaders of New Zealand and Australia have minimized their differences over China and urged more investigation into the origin of the coronavirus after their first face-to-face meeting in more than a year

An Australian government minister has dropped his defamation lawsuit against Australian Broadcasting Corp. after the state broadcaster acknowledged a 33-year-old rape allegation against him could not be substantiated

At night, the floors of sheds vanish beneath carpets of scampering mice

A group of Australian teenage environmentalists has lost their legal bid to force the federal government to ban a coal mine expansion

Australia’s second-largest city is set to enter its fourth lockdown at midnight as concern grows over the rapid spread of infections from a coronavirus variant

Parts of rural Australia are enduring what has so far been a months-long plague of mice.

The Australian government has released a big-spending economic plan for the next fiscal year that includes hefty investments in defense and national security as relations with China worsen

Time-lapse footage shows smoke and fog smothering the city of Sydney, Australia.

An Australian suburb found itself overrun by a huge flock of native cockatoos.

A lone gunman killed 35 people in a massacre that prompted stricter gun laws.

Australia’s cancellation of two infrastructure deals with China has prompted Beijing to accuse its leaders of a “Cold War mentality” and threaten a possible response

Alex White thought he was watching a huge worm writhing in plastic-wrapped lettuce he’d just brought home from the supermarket — until a snake tongue flicked

A cyclone has damaged several towns on Australia’s western coast, shattering windows, snapping trees and knocking out power

By Day 3 of being confined to his Brisbane hotel room for quarantine, David Marriott was getting bored

New Zealand will open a long-anticipated travel bubble with Australia on April 19

Former two-time Olympic silver medalist canoeist Nathan Baggaley and his younger brother have been found guilty of plotting to smuggle $150 million worth of cocaine into Australia in 2018

A judge said the man was “probably the most hated man in Australia."

The farmer managed to save his home from a bushfire but lost it shortly after to major flooding.

Videographer captures drone footage of Australia's largest waterfall.

The body has yet to be formally identified.

Heavy rainfall was forecast to ease across Australia’s east coast but floodwaters will linger for days across New South Wales state where 15,000 people were on Tuesday nervously waiting for potential orders to evacuate

Hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters that have isolated dozens of towns in Australia’s most populous state New South Wales and forced thousands to evacuate their homes as record rain continues

People marching demanded justice for women as the government reels from two rape allegations.

Australia’s attorney-general has denied having sexual contact with a 16-year-old who had accused him of raping her 33 years ago and says he will not resign as the nation’s top law officer

An anonymous letter alleged the man had raped a 16-year-old girl 30 years ago.

Australia’s prime minister said he invited President Joe Biden to visit in September during a “very warm and engaging” phone call between the two leaders on Thursday

For decades, Margaret Court was the pride of Australia and in her 17 years on the professional tennis circuit, she won a record 24 singles Grand Slam titles.

Drone footage captured a shark swimming close to shore on New Year's Day.

A lightning bolt spread across the sky above New South Wales during widespread thunderstorms in the state.

A judge has ordered a long prison term for a man who killed two women and sexually assaulted two others in Australia’s western city of Perth more than 20 years ago

An official Chinese government twitter posted a false image that drew ire.

The U.S. government has executed a man who kidnapped and raped a 16-year-old Texas girl before dousing her with gasoline and burying her alive

The leaders of Australia and Japan have held in-person talks to bolster defense ties between the two U.S. allies to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific region amid the transition in American leadership

Australia is forming a new investigative agency to build criminal cases against Australian special forces suspected of committing war crimes in Afghanistan

The iconic Sydney Opera House is illuminated with poppies to mark the 102nd anniversary of Remembrance Day.

Police say the leader of a Chinese community organization has become the first person to be charged under Australia’s 2-year-old foreign interference laws

Australia’s competition watchdog will consider its own antitrust case against Google after the U.S. Justice Department sued the company for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising

An Australian official says the United States is expected to have resettled more than 1,100 refugees by early next year under a deal President Donald Trump reluctantly honored with Australia

An Australian state leader has shut down a revolt in her coalition government over a policy to protect koala habitat by threatening to fire seven renegade ministers

A major Australian barley exporter barred from China in the latest trade dispute to hit bilateral relations says the Chinese are only now acting on grain shipments dating back to 2019

The Australian government has drafted new laws that would cancel international deals struck by lower tiers of governments with foreign states that are not in Australia’s interests

An Australian judge has issued a rare order restricting the movements of an extremist when he is released from a Sydney prison after serving 12 years for a terrorism-related conviction

Several streets were underwater and a major flood warning was in place in New South Wales.