After a rash of wildfires burned through Victoria and South Australia this month, poor baby koalas have been getting their paws and their "rumps" singed when hanging out, minding their own business in trees. The only solution: mittens with cartoon koalas on them! Cute!!!
A pilot tracking an Eastern grey kangaroo and her joey through Hunter Valley, Australia got a little too close, and perhaps underestimated the roo's speed and vertical leap. Although the pilot tried to back the drone up, it was too late: His shit got wrecked.
Eight young children were stabbed to death in a gruesome attack on a Queensland, Australia home today.
Two people are reportedly dead and three more are reportedly in serious condition after heavily-armed police stormed the Lindt Cafe in Sydney this morning. Just before the raid, several more hostages fled the cafe, where they'd been held by a gunman—identified as Man Haron Monis, a self-proclaimed cleric—for more than…
Police have identified the man behind the on-going siege in Sydney as Man Haron Monis, a self-proclaimed cleric and former "spiritual healer" granted political asylum in Australia from Iran. Monis was recently charged with 50 counts of indecent exposure and sexual assault, and as an accessory to the murder of his…
When Yolanda Bogert's teenage son came out to her as transgender last week, she decided to show her love and support by correcting the official record.
It took a dozen police officers to calm down a drunken Australian wedding celebration that ended with the bride in the hospital and the groom and best man under arrest Friday.
In a move his family claims he would have appreciated, a man's body was stolen, along with the hearse carrying him, moments before his funeral in Australia.
An Australian newscaster said he managed to wear the same suit almost every day for a year without anyone noticing, despite the fact that viewers often criticize his female co-host for her sartorial choices.
A mother of six is under investigation by Australian police after she apparently fooled dozens of generous strangers on Facebook, and even her boyfriend, into believing she had cancer and needed expensive medical treatments. The Daily Telegraph broke the story of her unraveling hoax, which reportedly netted her…
Though Halloween has come and gone, the spookiness of everyday life (in this case, the everyday life of an Australian surfer) persists.
The South Sydney Rabbitohs, a rugby team partially owned by Russell Crowe, won the Australian National Rugby League championship yesterday, its first victory in 43 years. "It's all about the bunnies down here," said a Channel Nine reporter, live at the scene. Wrong. It was all about one fan's swinging dick.
Brisbane police believe an Australian chef murdered his girlfriend, then chopped up her body and cooked it on his stove before committing suicide by cutting his own throat.
Swedish traveler Elin Nordlander spotted these two koalas—an old couple? rivalrous siblings? competing males?—honking and nipping at each other during a trip to Australia. “Two Koalas having an argument, supercute!” Nordlander wrote.
Australian police shot an 18-year-old boy dead after he stabbed two cops last night. The teen, Abdul Numan Haider, brought an ISIS flag to the mall last week and was a "known terror suspect." This comes just one week after cops thwarted an ISIS plot to publicly behead a random Australian.
A plan by ISIS to "gruesomely" execute a randomly selected member of the public in Sydney was thwarted by police on Thursday, according to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
This morning, a group of commuters at Stirling station on Australia's Transperth line worked together to lift a train and free a man whose leg was trapped between a car and the platform.
A group of four prisoners at a work release center in Australia's Berrimah jail are suspected of repeatedly sneaking out to get drunk and high, then breaking back in before correctional officers noticed.
The Michael Bay-produced movie reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is due out in Australia on Sept. 11, and Paramount Pictures probably could have picked a better image for the promo poster than the Turtles leaping from an exploding skyscraper.
Six prominent AIDS researchers and activists, all flying on the Malaysia Airlines plane that was gunned down over Ukraine, were honored and memorialized at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne on Sunday, the AP reports. The researchers were en route to Australia when the plane was shot down.
