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The official death toll from mudslides in China has risen above 1,000 and more rain forecast for coming days could make things even worse.
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Tony Abbott emerged from last night's Rooty Hill RSL forum as the people's choice, with an exit poll showing audience members favouring him over PM Julia Gillard.
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Authorities have refloated a 50-metre barge that washed up on Tugun Beach on Queensland's Gold Coast.
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Australia is expected to be one of the top performers at the world's first Youth Olympics.
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A war of words has broken out over the integrity of Australia's onshore immigration system.
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The first person to be extradited from Indonesia to Australia over people smuggling has been found guilty by a Perth jury.
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Relatives of those killed in a plane crash in Papua New Guinea last year have honoured their memory by walking along the gruelling Kokoda Track.
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The Greens say the Coalition's Murray-Darling plan falls short and will fail to achieve any difference to environmental flows.
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Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir could face the death penalty over his alleged role in a new terrorist cell.
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Consumer groups say the Commonwealth Bank's record $5.7 billion profit is evidence the Federal Government needs to step in to improve competition.
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has been quizzed on a range of issues by a forum of undecided voters at the Rooty Hill RSL in western Sydney.
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The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has unveiled a $1.5 million upgrade of its World War II galleries.
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Science engagement and communication will receive a boost in funding if Labor is re-elected to power in next week's election.
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The Federal Government and Opposition have pledged bipartisan support to fund specialised Indigenous training centres after the election.
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Australia is ramping up its support for Pakistan's flood victims as the nation struggles to deal with the worst floods in its history.
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More than $1.6 billion worth of assets will be seized from Thailand's former prime minister after an appeal request was rejected by the country's Supreme Court.
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Archaeologists say they have discovered Britain's oldest house at a Stone Age site in northern England, and have compared its historical significance to Stonehenge, the country's most famous ancient monument. Researchers from Manchester and York universities said the remains of the 3.5-metre wide circular structure at Star Carr, near Scarborough, date back 10,500 years when Britain was still linked to continental Europe. Near the house they also uncovered a large wooden platform made of split and hewn timbers extending into an ancient lake, which they said was the earliest evidence of carpentry in Europe. Pieces of flint and antlers used for arrow and spearheads have also been found. They said the site was inhabited by hunter gatherers from just after the last ice age, for a period of between 200 and 500 years. "The site for archaeologists is as important as Stonehenge," York University lecturer Nicky Milner told BBC television from the dig. "Sites of this period are just really rare, so finding things like bone and antler and wood as well is just incredible," she added. The house, first excavated by the team two years ago, had post holes around a central hollow which would have been filled with organic matter such as reeds, and possibly a fireplace. It predates by 500 years a dwelling at Howick in Northumberland in northern England previously thought to have been Britain's oldest.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has come under scrutiny from an audience of undecided voters at the Rooty Hill RSL in western Sydney.
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The Australian share market got off to a poor start with the US Federal Reserve's announcement overnight not as big as had been hoped.
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The former chief financial controller of property group Westpoint is facing criminal charges brought forward by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
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Coroner says it was "inappropriate and premature" for police to fire a Taser at an incoherent and agitated man who died shortly afterwards.
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One of New Zealand's leading businessmen, Sir Ron Trotter, who played a key role in revamping the nation's economy in the 1980s, has died aged 82.
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Fiji's military leader and prime minister Frank Bainimarama wants to ditch traditional ties with Australia, New Zealand and the United States and align his nation with China.
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A court in Nepal is due to give its verdict in the case of 36 villagers charged with a series of gruesome murders in a battle over a highly prized plant dubbed the Himalayan Viagra.
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A Darwin-based betting agency says it has taken a $200,000 bet on Labor to win the federal election.
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