USA: Police say a central Pennsylvania man beat his friend for refusing to eat ramen noodles.

Opposition party MPs in Australia hope to harness momentum from the Irish marriage equality referendum after proposing a law that would recognise same-sex marriages.

Opposition MPs in Australia hope to harness momentum from Irelans's same sex marriage referendum after proposing a law that would recognise gay marriages.

Australia’s gaffe-prone prime minister took back his second Nazi-related comment in a month after he compared the opposition party leader to German World War II-era propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

The Australian prime minister has defended his decision to honour the Alexis Tsipras with a knighthood, despite a social media backlash in which many said they thought the news was a joke.

The Australian prime minister has defended his decision to honour the Duke of Edinburgh with a knighthood, despite a social media backlash in which many said they thought the news was a joke.

Malaysian Airlines is still trying to determine the nationality of 18 people on board flight MH17.

World-renowned Aids researchers and activists heading to an international conference in Australia were on board the downed Malaysian jet, it has emerged.

Australia’s government ordered an emergency arbitration hearing today after Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet amid a bitter dispute with striking workers, stranding passengers around the world.

A rescue operation to free two Australian gold miners trapped underground for 13 days suffered further delays today as teams were forced to shore up an escape shaft before trying to cut through the final yard of a rock barrier.

RESCUERS feared two Australian miners would have to spend a 13th night nearly 3,000 yards underground, as a solid rock barrier forced rescuers to use explosives to blast the final stretch of an escape tunnel.

The mood was sombre but determined at Beaconsfield Gold Mine, as explosive specialists set small charges in an attempt to cut through the final yards of rock and free Brant Webb, 37 and Todd Russell, 34.

Two Australian gold miners spent a 12th night trapped underground as rescuers worked in relays tonight to cut the final stretch of an escape tunnel by hand.

Rescuers are making good progress drilling an escape tunnel for two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage nearly 3,000 feet underground, officials said today.

Two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage more than a half mile underground were today given iPods to help them while away the hours as rescuers prepared to start drilling them an escape tunnel.

Two men entombed in an Australian gold mine for a week will probably be freed without major medical problems, a rescue official said today, as a special drill was assembled to bore through tonnes of collapsed rock.

TWO Australian miners trapped underground after a small earthquake have told rescuers that they want just one thing after their rescue: bacon and eggs.

Rescuers were drilling through rock today to reach two gold miners trapped underground.