Police are appealing for information about the bashing of a 91-year-old woman in Mt Waverley on Saturday night that left her with head injuries. Two men broke into the woman’s Waverley Road home about 9.45 and struck her before...

MONASH councillors are still unsure whether the council staff will have hand-scans when they clock on and off work. At a 10-minute emergency meeting last Tuesday, the councillors decided that council staff would be consulted...

The father of a British businessman accused of hiring a hitman to murder his wife on their honeymoon has declared he will be proved innocent. Prakash Dewani broke his silence to say that every member of his family stands by his...

LOS ANGELES: There may be three times as many stars in the universe as we thought. Previous counts relied on the assumption that the larger universe looks much like our own galaxy. But authors of a report published in Nature say...

BEIJING: In May 1986 a diminutive veteran of the long and brutal Japanese occupation of China, the then Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang, leaned forward in his oversized armchair and told the Australian prime minister Bob Hawke...