NEWS

This week APN News & Media announced it planned to sell off its regional newspaper business. This paves the way for Murdoch’s News Corp to buy them back.

Criminals who produce and sell the drug ice in Australia are the target of a new campaign by the Australian Government and Crime Stoppers.

A 32-year-old Blair Athol man has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly knocking unconscious another man in the Adelaide CBD early Thursday morning.

Arteta, whose contract expires this summer, is good friends with Guardiola, and him making the move is a huge possibility.

PM Malcolm Turnbull told parliament that “increasing capital gains tax is no part of our thinking whatsoever”. But his office later said he was referring to Labor's proposal to halve the capital gains tax discount from 50% to 25%.

The sports site first published the article, "Who is Daniel Holtzclaw?" on Feb. 17. The story delves into the life of Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma police officer and football player.

Update: The Arts Centre has said they will not press charges against the climbers

While Pope Francis maintained that abortion is a human evil, he suggested that the church may go easy on contraceptives especially for women in Zika-affected areas.

Police were monitoring beauty queen Felicia Djamirze and her boyfriend Dean Grant O'Donnell for drug trafficking.

At least 28 people were killed and 61 injured after a car bomb exploded in the Turkish military capital of Ankara on Wednesday.

China has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system in a heavily disputed island, situated between Vietnam and Taiwan that it controls in the South China Sea.

Matt Barrie’s viral essay on LinkedIn and NSW Premier Mike Baird’s Facebook post awakened the debate on Sydney’s lockout laws. IBTimes Australia speaks to some Sydney bar owners and bartenders about the contentious bans.

Many iPhone users have tried a prank that promises to activate the original Macintosh theme but actually renders the phones unusable.

MSF hospital bombing in Syria: At least seven people killed after four missiles were launched within minutes of each other.

Put bluntly, the ISSG plan is not for suffering Syrians. It is not for the opposition-rebel bloc. Instead – beyond the Assad regime – the beneficiaries are the US and Russian governments.

World leaders have agreed to enact a nationwide ceasefire in Syria, aiming to break the deadlock in the war-ravaged country and introduce swift humanitarian aid.

The US government has launched a civil suit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri for “egregious” and “routine” constitutional violations against its African-American population.

Hint: He's the one who tried to euthanise Johnny Depp's dogs, Pistol and Boo.

A Catholic pro-choice group has appealed to Pope Francis to stop condemning the use of contraception and abortions as the Zika virus, which affects babies, continues to spread around the world.

The Turnbull government has introduced landmark legislation that it says will provide the “missing piece” for Australian patients to access medical marijuana for the management of “painful and chronic” conditions.

Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Robb announced on Wednesday that he would retire from federal politics following the next election, saying he believes “the time is right.”

The copyright holders of ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ (DBC) have dropped their two-year-long piracy case against nearly 5,000 iiNet customers who illegally downloaded the film, starring Matthew McConaughey, between 2013 and 2015.

Six experts from Sydney University share their predictions for China in 2016, from its economy to its public health challenges.

A look into why innocent people confess to crimes they do not commit, and whether Australian police are allowed to coerce confessions.

After Netherlands successfully tested it eagles to take down drones, Scotland Yard is thinking of doing the same as drones pose a threat to the UK.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull questioned whether the benefits of increasing the GST would be worth the difficulties of doing so.

Global leaders have pledged more than AU$15 billion in aid to Syria amid the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, while Saudi Arabia makes a first-time promise to support the US-led coalition against Daesh on the ground.

Hundreds of South Australian students had to be evacuated on Friday after schools in Adelaide received phone threats that could be linked to hoax bomb calls made to over 30 schools across Australia this week.

Millions of people across China are making their way home as the Lunar New Year approaches. In 2016, 2.9 billion trips will be made to accommodate this mass migration.