Australian Breaking Stories

Six high-speed chases in Adelaide have resulted in several arrests.

Queen Elizabeth's personal Jaguar has been put on the market in London.

International alcohol experts say Australia has one of the strongest correlations in the world between violence and drinking.

Political parties are entering the final hours of campaigning for tomorrow's elections in South Australia and Tasmania.

United States President Barack Obama has scrapped next week's trip to Australia and Indonesia as he wages a last ditch political battle over his healthcare reforms.

The Australia Defence Association (ADA) says the nation needs to show it will not accept acts of violence by asylum seekers trying to enter Australia.

Japan has sunk a proposal at a United Nations meeting in Qatar to ban the export on Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Governor General Quentin Bryce says racist and violent acts still plague Australia, despite major advances towards a more tolerant society.

A crude missile fired from Gaza has struck and killed a foreign worker on a kibbutz in Israel's south.

A British boy kidnapped in Pakistan two weeks ago has been reunited with his family.

The last captive aid worker in the Sudan, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was kidnapped in Darfur last October, has been freed.

The Federal Government is being asked to compensate household energy-efficiency assessors who do not qualify for its restructured Green Loans scheme.

A married couple in rural western India have been arrested for allegedly killing five young boys because a religious mystic told them it would help the woman conceive, police said.

A New Zealand investment banker who spent millions of stolen dollars on prostitutes was caught after one of his clients watched a documentary on US fraudster Bernie Madoff, a court was heard.

Middle-aged women have astonised the publishing industry by leading the demand in the rapidly expanding e-book market.

Scientists say their studies of the impact on the brain of fatty, sugary foods could shed new light on Australia's obesity epidemic.

A committee of the European parliament will consider evidence that more than 15 countries in the European Union are exporting torture equipment.

Whistleblowers say the Federal Government's proposed new laws to protect public servants who expose corruption or malpractice are a big move, but not enough.

Australian consumers are being warned to brace for a surge in electricity prices after New South Wales announced a 30 per cent increase over the next three years.

Ireland's justice minister has announced there will be a referendum on whether to maintain the country's controversial law against blasphemy.