The discovery of Jill Meagher’s body buried in a shallow grave beside a dirt road 50km from her Melbourne home finally ended the slim hope clung to by her family both here and in Australia that she might still be alive.

AUSTRALIAN teenager Shafique el-Fahkri survived an attack in which he was speared through his left eye socket by a metal chair leg.

AUSTRALIAN authorities recovered over one tonne of ecstasy tablets hidden in a shipment of ceramic tiles in the world’s largest seizure of the drug, police said yesterday.

Four people have been charged with making sex slaves of five Thai women found during a raid on a brothel in Melbourne, Australia.