A man was killed after a shark tore off his legs while he was surfing off Australia’s east coast, not far from the area where another surfer was mauled by a shark a day earlier.

An 18-year-old man has been killed by a shark while spear fishing on the Great Barrier Reef off the east Australian tourist town of Port Douglas.

Another element added to the rumour.

A shark killed a man at eastern Australia’s popular Byron Bay despite a beachgoer’s brave rescue attempt, police said.

A man has been killed in an apparent shark attack at the popular tourist destination of Byron Bay on the Australian east coast, officials said.

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Police in Australia have launched an internal investigation after Lily Allen posted a photo of herself being handcuffed by officers. It was a fake arrest.

Another search for a missing Irish teenager in Australia has ended with no result.

Treacherous weather conditions in Byron Bay are hampering efforts to find a missing Irishman in Australia.

Crews searching for an Irishman who went missing while surfing off Australia’s coast since Saturday morning thought a helicopter sighting had yielded a clue to his whereabouts, only to find it was a false alarm.

The Irish surfer who has been missing off the coast of Australia has been named as 19-year-old Stuart Butler.

Rescue efforts are continuing to locate an Irish man who went missing in waters off Byron Bay in Australia on Saturday morning.

An Irish surfer has gone missing in waters off Byron Bay in Australia.

Ahead of Father’s Day on Sunday, Jonathan deBurca Butler asks three foreign dads living in Ireland what it’s like to rear children here.

The Australian police have confirmed that a body recovered from the sea over the weekend is that of an Irish tourist who went missing 11 days ago.

Police in Australia believe a body recovered from the water at Brunswick Heads this morning may be that of missing Irishman Niall McDonough.

A search is continuing in Australia today for a 30-year-old Irishman who went missing on Friday night in the coastal town of Byron Bay.

POLICE in Australia were last night searching for an Irishman who went missing along the Byron Bay coastline.

An Irishman has gone missing near Byron bay in Australia.

A large shark entangled itself in a surfer’s leg rope in Australia and began towing him and his board out to sea, the surfer said today.

A commercial fisherman who swam for 12 hours to shore to raise the alarm after his trawler sank was hailed a hero in Australia today.

FAMILY and friends of an Irish backpacker missing in South America say the discovery of his rucksack in a hostel in El Calafate in Argentina has renewed hopes that he is still alive.

Australian police have dropped a malicious damage charge against Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin.

Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, has asked Australian police to drop a charge that he damaged a photographer’s car in the eastern resort town of Byron Bay in July.

Around 750 women took off their clothes and formed a heart shape around the words “No War” on an Australian hillside today, in an attempt to send an anti-war message to the Australian government, police said.