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Halloween may be over, but the real aftermath of the killer clown purge is still unclear.

WikiLeaks has released more than 30,000 hacked emails that put Hillary Clinton into controversy, but some of them have revealed the good side of the US presidential candidate.

North Korea has planned to launch an intermediate-range ballistic missile within 72 hours prior to the Nov. 8 US presidential election.

The UK is revamping its national cyber security strategy that shall cover a four-year period.

The killer clown craze has taken the world by storm, as well as the Land Down Under.

An Australian lecturer earns one of the rarest honours in the world.

Global @dvisor Infrastructure Index 2016 revealed in its study that only 38 percent of Australians agreed that the country's broadband was very or fairly good.

Huge swells destroyed at least three sculptures at Sculpture by the Sea on Monday afternoon.

Russian scientists have rediscovered a Nazi military base in the Arctic 72 years later after it has been abandoned. The base has been identified as the Schatzgraber or Treasure Hunter.

Australian satirist Leslie Nassar, 43, was killed by a 20-year-old man on Saturday morning around 7:30 a.m. in Nampa, Idaho, US. Nassar's daughters were both injured in the hit-and-run crash. 

An iPhone 7 has burst into flames and set a car on fire in Australia, leading tech giant Apple to investigate yet another case of smartphone combustion.

A 24-second video of Australian hostage Craig Bruce McAllister has been released on the Internet after his abduction last month in Yemen. In the video, he has begged the government to pay the ransom that his captors have been asking for his release.

As Donald Trump stubbornly declared that he would only accept the US election results if he won, the Internet has unearthed a months-old Instagram post from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton that should teach Trump how to gracefully accept lost. The post was a 1993 letter from then-outgoing US President George H.W. Bush to his successor, Bill Clinton.

The 29-year-old Sydney Entrepreneur, Adam Brimo, has launched Openlearning.com to provide free vocational courses to students who cannot afford to pay for their education. It is the solution to the non-completion of government-funded VET courses.

The Turnbull government has quietly withdrawn its gag order for doctors working in the Australian offshore detention centres. On Friday, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection posted on its website an amendment that removed the ban on health professionals to disclose abuses on asylum seeker and refugees.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has revealed that a total of 1551 Australians were arrested overseas in 2015-2016 for offences including drugs, fraud and assault.  The figures indicated that there was an increase of 23 percent from the department's previous records.

Saudi Arabia has executed a royal family member for killing another man during a brawl. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was found guilty of murdering a young Saudi man during a group fight in Riyadh more than three years ago.

New South Wales police found two cylinders outside Fernando Manrique’s home on Sir Thomas Mitchell Drive in Davidson, NSW, on Monday. The cylinders led the police to uncover the elaborate system of gas chamber that could be the cause of death of Manrique and his family.

An 11-month-old girl was found unconscious on the floor at her home in Lithgow. Triple-0 receive a call that the baby girl fell from a cot. Paramedics treated her before she was flown to the Lithgow hospital. Then she was transferred through an airlift to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, where she received a surgery.

Australian ex-prime minister Tony Abbott has defended Donald Trump, saying the US presidential candidate’s policies  are “reasonable enough.” The former Liberal Party leader has also referred to Trump’s supporters as “decent,” as opposed to the “deplorables” that Hillary Clinton previously called them.

Playboy magazine is now available digitally on iTunes and Google Play nude-free as it targets social media consumers.

The award-winning author is claiming that Adolf Hitler's risky decisions during the latter part of WWII were due to his dependency on a heroin-like drug, Eukodol.

Here is what Hillary Clinton's side has to say about the issue.

A recent report has indicated the amount of donations that the Clinton Foundation has received, a large amount of which are from people that Hillary Clinton met with during her stint as Secretary of State.

Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, visits Germany for the second time to attend a historical event in Düsseldorf.

Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has put to rest commuters’ anxiety over a possible fare increase to raise funding for the $5.2 billion Cross River Rail project. During a budget hearing Tuesday , Hinchliffe ruled out fare hike as among the potential sources of funding for the construction of a 10.2-kilometre rail that links Dutton Park to Bowen Hills in Brisbane.

The Queensland government has fast-tracked deliberation on the regulation of ride-hailing service Uber as a response to mounting public and industry pressure. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the final review of the “Opportunities for Personalised Transport” report will be done before the month ends.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was unbelievably impressed over Michelle Obama’s recent speech, in which the US First Lady strongly endorsed the presidential bid of his rival, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Sonia Kruger wants Muslims banned in Australia. “The Voice Australia” presenter has ignited debate on migration on Monday after she appeared to have echoed US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial stance on closing the country’s borders from Muslims.