Olympic legend Lochte leads international stars of swimming in expressing condolences, with Hong Kong record breaker To hailed as an inspiration.

Record-breaking Hong Kong swimmer was young prodigy for Australia before injuries, and sacrificed Olympic dream to help team win gold at Commonwealth Games

Holder of 17 Hong Kong swimming records felt unwell in the locker room after a practice session in Florida, and was taken to hospital where he died.

The Prime Minister also said there would be an inquiry into Friday’s mass shooting to see if it could have been prevented while the alleged shooter fired his lawyer and said he would represent himself in court.

The senator had to be restrained by security officials after punching a young man protesting his offensive comments about the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Immigration minister said that comments made by Yiannopoulos were ‘appalling and foment hatred and division’.

The international student strike, inspired by a Swedish activist, will see classrooms empty from Boston to Bogota, Dhaka to Durban and Lagos to London.

More than 70 tonnes of oil has been lost after MV Solomon Trader ran aground a month ago in the Solomon Islands. And with hundreds of tonnes still inside the ship there are fears the environmental disaster could get worse.

Accusation from America’s new ambassador to Australia comes as Washington and its allies battle Beijing for greater influence in the region

The disgraced cardinal was found guilty of molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral more than 20 years ago.

Activist Craig Foster says Al-Araibi’s naturalisation is a triumph for those who helped fight for his freedom.

Comments come after Admiral Phil Davidson suggested that a loose security grouping of the four countries could be shelved for now.

‘We are just trying to give the ducks a fighting chance,’ said activist after talking to hunters and trying to scare the birds away from a lake.

Staff allegedly told to check Aboriginal guests into inferior rooms at Alice Springs hotel.

Minister insists Canberra’s development of security bases in the region was not the same type of militarisation Beijing has been accused of.

The line failed to connect one in every three callers with a counsellor in 2016/17, and had delays of more than three minutes before answering calls. The revelations come as advocates warn of a crisis in veteran suicides.

The ship’s insurer and Hong Kong-based owner should have acted more quickly “instead of leaving it up to Australia and the Solomon Islands to respond”, said a minister.

Pell, the former Vatican finance chief, will be sentenced next week for convictions of orally raping a 13-year-old choirboy.

The “co-living” trend is creating an opening for new businesses to step in to match a need with available homes owned by others set up for multiple residents.

Beijing and Canberra have been quick to deny that politics is behind the delays that have hit Australian coal imports. To sceptics, it’s a case of protesting too much.

The technology of the 2,700-year-old tattooing tools, made partly of human bones, is still being used today, according to Australian researchers.

Melbourne Fashion Festival, which runs until March 10, will showcase the work of 147 fashion designers. Here’s our quick guide to international and local fashion, beauty, and homewares stores around the city.

The fierce blazes have destroyed nine homes and shut down 23 schools in Victoria state, and authorities are expecting more fires to start over the next few days.

The deal, nine years in the making, was inked after months of diplomatic concerns over Canberra’s contentious plan to move its embassy to Jerusalem.

Authorities said a pack of the wild dogs chased and attacked a mother and son as they were running to their vehicle after accidentally disturbing the animals.

Pyne and Ciobo were the fourth and fifth cabinet members in Morrison’s government to announce they would quit politics at the May election.