At 4 p.m. AEST on Monday, gunman and one of FBI’s suspected terrorists since 2013 Omar Mateen opened fire in Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and injuring 53. Mateen was killed in the shootout with the police but not before pledging loyalty to ISIS.
Brock Turner will be serving three months in prison, not the already controversial six months Judge Aaron Persky has sentenced him to. The former Stanford University student has also been banned by USA Swimming for life.
Mornington Pier saw two deaths on Friday morning because of a scuba diving accident.
“Love Yourself” singer Justin Bieber was pummelled to the ground by a man after the NBA Finals Game 3 Warriors vs Cavs in Cleveland game on Thursday. Ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez was reportedly worried about the star.
The songwriters behind X-Factor 2010 winner Matt Cardle’s “Amazing” are suing Ed Sheeran for plagiarism given the uncanny similarity of their song to the hit single “Photograph.” The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday.
Brock Turner was a victim of Stanford University’s “party culture” and “sexual promiscuity.” In his letter to Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky before he was sentenced to just six months of prison, Turner blamed a lot of things for his sexual assault of an unconscious young woman behind a dumpster last year.
Brock Turner’s dad turned to the Internet for financial support for their son’s legal defence. Dan Turner, the father of the former Stanford University student convicted of sexual assault, established a legal support fund with a local credit union to help them pay the mounting legal cost of their son.
After Amber Heard filed for divorce from actor Johnny Depp, new rumours suggest that she is pregnant with his baby. Here are five things to know about Heard and Depp’s divorce.
An International Tennis Federation tribunal has announced its decision to impose a 2-year ban on tennis star Maria Sharapova. Nike responded to the situation by releasing a statement that they will continue to sponsor her despite the current state of her tennis career.
The two heroes who stopped Brock Turner from raping a young woman on Stanford University’s campus have spoken up. Carl-Frederik Arndt and his fellow Swedish Ph.D. student Peter Jonsson found Turner sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in January 2015.
A corrupted or unusually strong heroin batch is making rounds in Sydney streets, and health authorities believe that the batch is responsible for 13 drug deaths across Sydney in the space of a month. New South Wales coroner Michael Barnes has been forced to issue a warning to stop any further casualties resulting from the intake of the corrupted batch of heroin.
Forbes has released its annual Most Powerful Women list for 2016, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel is still number one. Mining mogul Gina Rinehart is the only Australian who made the list.
UFC revoked the license of MMA Fighting reporter Ariel Helwani and banned him for life during UFC 199 show on Saturday after predicting that retired mixed martial arts fighter Brock Lesnar will be coming out of his retirement to participate at UFC 200.
Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris have put an end to their 15-month relationship.
Perth's Mandurah man Ben Gerring lost a leg, but was saved by surfers after being attacked by a white shark in Falcon Bay on Tuesday afternoon.
The former QLD treasurer defeated Lawrence Springboard 22-19 during the second round of votes.
The Turnbull government is expected to call a double dissolution for July 2 after the Senate voted down its controversial workplace relations legislation on Monday evening.
Jamaica is planning to end Queen Elizabeth II’s rule as well as legalise marijuana.
Australian company Incitec Pivot has been revealed as the world’s sixth largest importer of “illegal” phosphate from the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
A 12-year-old boy declared himself as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia on Wikipedia.
Negative gearing and capital gains tax are a looming battleground in the federal election, with a report last month showing that reforms would lead to rent increases of between 4% and 10%.
The administrators investigating Clive Palmer’s Queensland Nickel (QN) have found that he acted as a “shadow director” of the failed enterprise.
Police statistics have revealed that 100 private individuals in New South Wales alone own over 70 guns each.
The ‘Cannabis King’ died at his home near Bridgend, South Wales, where he grew up. Till the end, he remained unremorseful of his life and said he had no regrets.
“There are literally tens of thousands of victims [of the banking sector], if not more...This string of scandals has to stop.”
The Turnbull government has announced a $75 billion infrastructure project to secure the future of Arrium Mining and Minerals, which entered into voluntary administration on Thursday.
An English woman is in a sexual relationship with her biological son but denies that they are having an incestuous relationship.
"What the Commonwealth giveth, it mostly taketh away again, via the GST distribution."
Iceland has a new Prime Minister, Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, but Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are shutting down the allegations.
The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates the cost of Australia's student loan program will cost the budget $11.1 billion by 2025-26.
