Bankrupt Kathy Jackson has been ordered to pay the Health Services Union $1.4 million after a court found she misused the union's money.

A US man who delighted thousands of children by impersonating Batman at hospitals and charity events has died after he was hit by a car while standing in the fast lane of Interstate 70, checking the engine of his custom-made Batmobile.

Australian police have announced their hit list for 2015 – 20 fugitives that are on the run and on the loose in our communities.

A New Zealand bar has shut shop within weeks of opening because of one minor problem – it was alcohol free.

Greece's PM Alexis Tsipras will have to rely on support from opposition parties to gain approval for changes that add to sweeping new austerity measures.

An unqualified dentist who smoked and used unclean equipment while performing backyard surgery has avoided jail – to his victim's and a Melbourne magistrate's lament.

Video has emerged of what might be the most hardcore Australian bushman climbing on top of a 500-kilogram crocodile, and riding it on top of it.

Islamic State hackers have reportedly released personal information of Australian Defence Force workers and their relatives, a Victorian MP and several other public servants – Urging home-grown terrorists to attack them in a frightening online breach ...

Hazem Sedda is probably the most popular man in Redfern.

The beating death of a Pomeranian named Fox may have been eclipsed by the hand-written note left behind: "We beat it 2 death lol HAHAHA!"

Coalition MPs have rejected a conscience vote on same sex marriage

A dog named Homer is taking over Instagram with his awesome pug life.

A woman in New Zealand is suffering from a nightmare genetic disorder that has taken away her voice and has forced her to live in complete darkness

A "woman" has been spotted on Mars in one of the photos sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover – but she's only about "8-10cm tall".

Astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) will sample the first crop of "Outredgeous" lettuce today as part of NASA’s Veg.01 experiment.

The terrifying and destructive power of Typhoon Soudelor has been caught on camera in Taiwan.

A six-year-old girl is recovering in hospital tonight, fighting back from an accidental hanging at a Sydney childcare centre.

A 91-year-old woman who believed she had a large tumour growing inside her, has learnt it was actually a foetus.

There's been a furious reaction on Sydney's Northern Beaches after an endangered grey nurse shark was killed, with photos surfacing of the protected animal with a spear in its head.

A window cleaner is in hospital with serious spine, pelvis and head injuries after falling three stories, head first from the Apple Store on George Street into a bus shelter with two people sitting inside it.