The death toll from a suspected adulterated alcohol mass poisoning in Laos rose to six Friday after an Australian teen backpacker died in a hospital in Thailand where she had been transferred for treatment.

India are skittled for 150 before reducing Australia to 67-7 in Perth on the opening day of Border-Gavaskar Test series.

Australia has introduced legislation to ban youth under 16 from social media platforms, with no exceptions even for those with parental consent.

BANGKOK (AP) Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos. An American man and two Danes also died, though their exact causes of death have not been released. A New Zealander also has ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) An Australian Cabinet minister on Friday rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musks allegation that the government intended to control all Australians’ access to the internet through legislation that would ban young children from social media.Tre...

VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) Laotian police have detained the manager and owner of a hostel where two teenage Australian tourists stayed who were poisoned by tainted alcohol, one fatally, in a case that appears to have claimed the lives of at least five people.An officer at Vang Vieng’s Tourism Police office, who refused to give his name, told The Associated Press on Friday that a...

Rachel Kolisi teased an upcoming holiday to Australia with her two kids and Siya Kolisi's sister, Liphelo amid their divorce.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach, officials said Friday.The adult male was found on Nov. 1 on Ocean Beach sand dunes in the town ...

China is retaking the title of second-largest donor to a dozen Pacific island nations, surpassing the United States in the process, according to data from Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank.  

Australian legislators introduced a landmark bill Thursday to ban social media for children under 16. CBS News London's Leigh Kiniry reports on what this could mean for social media companies.

SAN DIEGO (AP) Former America’s Cup star Jimmy Spithill has introduced his new Red Bull Italy SailGP Team just ahead of the opening regatta of the global leagues fifth season in Dubai. Spithill is the teams CEO and founder. He pulled a major coup by hiring his old Americas Cup crewmate and fellow Australian, wing trimmer Kyle Langford, from the Australian team that dominated ...

Australian Annie Knight, 26, an OnlyFans star known as "the world's most sexually active woman," has revealed the home of America's most amorous males.

Ex-envoy Fu Ying wrote that one Australian journalist who interviewed her was hostile towards any country governed by a communist power.

No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner won matches in singles and doubles to lead defending champion Italy to a 2-1 comeback victory over Argentina on Thursday, earning a return trip to the Davis Cup semifinals.

A night of downing cocktails at a Laotian hostel has left an American tourist and four others dead from what authorities said was methanol-tainted booze.  Victims include two Danish women in their twenties, 28-year-old British lawyer Simone White, and 19-year-old Australian student Bianca Jones, according to the Times. The identity of the American has not...

A U.S. citizen and at least four other tourists from Australia, Denmark and Britain died in Laos this month after having drinks possibly spiked with methanol.

MALAGA, Spain (AP) U.S. Davis Cup captain Bob Bryan’s decision to make a last-second change to his doubles lineup against Australia did not work out. With the best-of-three quarterfinal even at 1-1 heading into the deciding doubles match Thursday, Bryan opted to switch from an established duo, Paris Olympics silver medalists Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram, to a pairing of two singles ...

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Thursday that his government has rollout a new social media ban on children under 16, leaving the responsibility of policing the law to tech compani...

A post shared on Facebook claims Robert F. Kennedy Jr. purportedly intends to to require Coca-Cola to remove high-fructose corn syrup from its products. Verdict: False Neither Kennedy Jr. nor the Coca-Cola Company appear to have publicly commented on the claim. In addition, Newsweek has debunked the claim. Fact Check: U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline […]