An Irish family facing deportation from Australia because their son has cystic fibrosis have been allowed to stay.

An Australian state parliament has legalised voluntary euthanasia 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill.

Police in Australia have detained five suspects who were allegedly planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country's second largest city.

SCIENTISTS are priming two spacecraft to slam into the moon’s South Pole to see if the lunar double whammy reveals hidden water ice.