FOUR helicopters, fighter jets, a plane dragging a banner, 50 Harley Davidson motorbikes, dozens of luxury cars, a film crew and a band of drummers: Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer spared no expense when he wed his beautiful bride Aysha yesterday.

SEOUL, South Korea — Since the late 1990s, some 28,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea. Only one, as far as anyone knows, has ever asked to go back.

AS A single man, babies didn’t really come into my thought process. Then, about 18 months ago, I was watching my father, brother and nephew play together and I just thought, “This is what the good men in my family do – they have a family.”

A Sydney teenager who was not invited to her high school formal because of her Down syndrome is on her way to a New York City art exhibition featuring her paintings after a large donation from an anonymous Australian expat in Singapore.

Viewing 3D content without glasses or goggles has proved to be one of the toughest things for interface designers to achieve — it never really looks right -until this.....

Take a closer look at several women whose apparently charmed lives proved the point that money can’t buy happiness.

A volcano in Japan just 50 kilometres away from a nuclear reactor shows signs of increased activity, officials warn.

SCIENTISTS are investigating unexplainable bursts of radio waves that could be messages from alien life forms, after an Australian team stumbled upon the phenomenon.

Ian Hancock is not a gypsy. He is a Romani. The difference in nomenclature is so important that Hancock, a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies at The University of Texas at Austin since 1972, has devoted most of his adult life to disp ...

Both the US and Cuba have made clear rapprochement will be slow and incremental, during an historic US visit to the island.

SOCIAL media posts about your upset belly or last night’s dodgy kebab are the latest weapons used by health authorities to stamp out outbreaks of food poisoning.

THE mysterious Somerton Man may have been killed by his nurse lover - an Adelaide woman and suspected Soviet spy with whom he fathered a child, it has been claimed.

The US must emulate South Koreas Internet speeds and costs — but not its education system.

Queen Kelly's funeral in 1915 was an extravagant festival that would be described in newspapers across the country and lead to numerous legends.

LYONS — The Colorado Cherry Company has been a fixture along U.S. 36 near Estes Park for decades. The family business has seen its fair share of visitors through the years. But one visitor ate the goods and made a gigantic mess at the same time.  It ...

It's getting harder to get unplugged with the many electronic devices in our lives. When was the last time you turned off the phone, shut off the GPS, ignored email, switched off the TV, computer and tablet and just did something it else for a day. What did you do and how was it. I can't think of a day recently without at least something that plugs in.

Look to your garden for remedies to the common cold and flu

Amnesty International delegates have voted in favour of adopting a policy for the full decriminalisation of prostitution. This represents not only the 'decriminalisation of sex work', as proponents have claimed, but also the decriminalisati ...

The best meteor shower of the year is upon us right now. If you go outside to a dark enough place, far from the city lights, you may spot tons of shoo...

Some of the most precise human data yet on whether cutting carbs or fat has the most benefits for losing body fat. Now, researchers show how, contrary to popular claims, restricting dietary fat can lead to greater body fat loss than carb restriction, ...