A former altar boy abused by a paedophile priest will receive $2.5 million in compensation — the highest known sum the Church in Australia has been forced to pay a survivor of historic sex abuse.
Tim Clarke
Two weeks after UN peacekeepers discontinued their patrols in Sudan's Darfur region, more than 200 people have been killed in ethnic clashes in recent days.
Banned Thai politician Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has had a complaint filed against him by the government under strict laws against defaming the monarchy.
A notorious Mongol bikie who was one of the first to be netted in clubhouse raids in the hours after Rebels boss Nick Martin was assassinated has pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine.
Shannon Hampton
A coroner examining the murder of Queensland woman Fabiana Palhares and her unborn child has found a failure to identify and act on a series of risk factors.
Victoria's education department could face millions of dollars in fines if found guilty over the death of a schoolboy in a wheelchair.
Gus McCubbing
A woman who was assaulted during a frenzied attack in which her mother died said "one of the most remarkable things", a Queensland judge says.
Cheryl Goodenough
The 19-year-old ‘kickboxer’ who was caught on camera trying to fly kick another reveller in the head during a violent night in Scarborough last weekend, has faced court after a night behind bars.
Daryna Zadvirna
A 21-year-old man in hospital has been charged with murder over the death of Chinese student Liqun Pan in a Sydney apartment, and will remain behind bars.
The former partner of a man accused with two others of murdering Jamie Phillips has told a jury about an ultimatum that led the pair to burn critical evidence.
Greta Stonehouse
A Victorian man has been found not guilty of murder, on the grounds of self-defence, after he fatally stabbed another man over an argument about Nazi handguns.
Security guards will be doubled and CCTV ramped up in Scarborough as part of a plan to combat violence after confronting pictures revealed the ugly brawls troubling the beachfront strip.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Documents from a settled legal suit involving Ghislaine Maxwell, the accused co-conspirator of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, are to be unsealed.
A man who stabbed a defenceless squatter sleeping in a Mandurah shed after sending a text message saying he had carried out a ‘bit of my own justice’ has been found guilty of murder after a retrial.
Off-contract NRL player Jamil Hopoate did not appear in Port Macquarie Local Court when assault and intimidation charges against him were mentioned.
Luke Costin
Richmond AFL player Sydney Stack will be sentenced in a Perth court in March after pleading guilty to a COVID-19 quarantine breach.
Michael Ramsey
Trouble-prone Richmond star Sydney Stack was brawling in Northbridge when he should have been in self-isolation.
Emily Moulton
A 44-year-old man has been charged after a four-hour stand-off with police in the NSW Blue Mountains and will remain behind bars for at least two more months.
Medical experts do not believe a psychosis that led a NSW man to kill his gran and a retired police officer was drug-induced, prosecutors have accepted.
There are up to 20 witnesses who could be called upon in NRL player Dylan Walker's upcoming hearing after he was accused of assaulting two men in Sydney.
Police stations in Gosnells, Rockingham and Warwick would remain open until 7pm on weekdays under a re-elected McGowan Government.
Josh Zimmerman
A class action alleging Queensland electricity customers paid too much because prices were manipulated and bills inflated has been filed in court.
A man failing to wear a mask at a Sydney metro station has allegedly fought with police and claimed his human rights were being impeded, prompting charges.
A man has been charged with assault and stalking offences after allegedly striking another man and causing major injuries near a northern Sydney rock pool.
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