The family of Jill Meagher have released a statement describing their devastation after a 41-year-old man Adrian Ernest Bayley was charged with her rape and murder.

ABC Australia says 41-year-old Adrian Ernest Bayley has been charged with the rape and murder of missing Irish woman Jill Meagher.

A man is expected to be charged within hours with the rape and murder of an Irish woman missing in Australia.

A sobbing Luke James Wentholt has been remanded in custody until Dec 18 for the murder of Dublin backpacker David Greene and for a vicious assault on David Byas at a Melbourne boarding house on Aug 26.

In Australia, a man has been charged with the murder of Irish backpacker David Greene, who died in hospital in Melbourne last week.

Two Irishmen remain in a critical condition in Australia after a horror hammer attack at a Melbourne hostel left them with life-threatening injuries.

Three young guys go on a massive spending spree, fuelled by drink, fraudulent credit card numbers and an insatiable thirst for living it up.

AN Australian doctor was charged with endangering his patients’ lives after police said he infected nearly 50 women with hepatitis C at an abortion clinic.

An Australian doctor was charged today with endangering his patients’ lives after police said he infected nearly 50 women with hepatitis C at an abortion clinic.

Lewis Hamilton has been charged with “intentional loss of control of a motor vehicle” following an incident on the eve of the Australian Grand Prix in March.

A psychiatric patient was charged with two counts of murder today following the overnight stabbings of two other patients at an Australian hospital.

One of four men charged accused of plotting a suicide attack on an Australian military base angrily denied he was a terrorist today and accused the country’s troops of killing innocent people overseas.

An Australian arrested last month for allegedly belonging to an extremist Islamic terror cell underwent training in Afghanistan and met al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden, a police officer told a court today.

TWO Islamic terror cells were rushing to become the first to stage a major “jihad” terror bombing in Australia, a prosecutor said yesterday.

Police in Australia arrested 16 terror suspects, including a radical Muslim cleric accused of leading a cell dedicated to “violent jihad", in a string of raids in the early hours of today and said they had foiled a catastrophic terror attack.

An alleged terror fundraiser charged with siphoning money to and from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network to help bankroll attacks appeared in an Australian court today.

A 40-year-old unemployed computer analyst who attacked two flight attendants with sharp wooden stakes was today charged with the attempted hijacking of a domestic Australian plane.