If you fancy being paid €78,000 to be a ‘chief funster’ then you had better dust off your CV, as Australia is now hiring.

Incredible pictures have emerged of one family's attempts to escape the wildfires ravaging Australia.

Australian crews battled a series of wildfires amid scorching temperatures across the country, with one blaze destroying dozens of homes in the island state of Tasmania.

Rupert Murdoch today called time on News Corporation’s digital newspaper The Daily as he unveiled a revamped team at the top of the media giant’s new publishing arm.

Eight of Lidl’s wines have picked up gongs at this summer’s

A man has been sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison for starting one of the deadly wildfires that ravaged southern Australia three years ago.

An Australian man was convicted today of deliberately starting one of the deadly wildfires that swept through southern Australia three years ago.

IN 1859 two Irishmen, Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills, led the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north.

Pope Benedict XVI gave Australia its first saint today, canonising a 19th century nun who was briefly excommunicated and also declaring five other saints in a Mass attended by tens of thousands of people.

SEVEN men lost their lives in weekend road crashes at home and abroad – with two Listowel men dying in separate crashes in Co Limerick and Melbourne, Australia.

A 16-year-old Australian girl who spent seven months at sea in her pink yacht sailed across the finish line of her round-the-world journey today, becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, non-stop and unassisted.

I HAD a close encounter with a fox the other day.

An 80-year-old man broke his hip while attempting a 6-foot ski jump in southern Australia, but says life is “too short” to skip the slopes.

Indigenous people from around the world are gathering this week for a conference on climate change – a subject they claim affects them disproportionately even though they share relatively little responsibility for it.

Rough seas whipped up by strong winds prevented the rescue of the sole surviving pilot whale among dozens of whales and dolphins stranded on a beach in southern Australia.

Thousands of firefighters in southern Australia were on alert today over fears that strong winds and dry conditions could whip still-burning wildfires into a dangerous new threat to residents.

Officials warned today the wildfires that devastated southern Australia this month could flare again when high winds and hot temperatures sweep the region later this week, and raised the death toll from the blazes to 210.

Scores of people fled their homes in southern Australia today amid fears new wildfires were about to devastate the area again.

Authorities searching for answers to the carnage from Australia’s worst-ever wildfires said today they would rethink current policies of allowing residents to decide for themselves whether to evacuate their homes.

SOUTH Australia baked under heatwave conditions for a third day yesterday, again causing disruptions to transport and power in two states and leaving medical services struggling to cope with heat-related illnesses.

A group of about 80 whales stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could reach them.

Australian wildlife officials said rescuers have returned 11 pilot whales to sea.

FANCY a meal? For almost €23,000? Well, there’s still time to reserve a table.

FEARS of strengthening monsoons in Asia could spell trouble for parts of Australia and Indonesia, which will see longer and more frequent droughts in the future, according to a study published in Nature.

Wildfires destroyed eight houses and cut electricity lines in southern Australia, plunging much of Victoria state into chaos as hundreds of thousands were left without power, a fire official said today.

Firefighters managed to contain a raging blaze that was threatening up to 1,000 homes near the southern Australian city of Hobart today.

Firefighters today struggled to contain a wildfire blazing out of control near the southern Australian city of Hobart, threatening up to 1,000 homes.

One person was killed and two more were missing and feared dead today after a blast totally destroyed an explosives factory in southern Australia, police said.

Close friends Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman will finally star opposite each other when filming for Baz Luhemann's latest movie gets underway in Australia in June.

Canberra has offered a long-term Australian resident it deported to Serbia temporary housing and medical checks in Belgrade, but is standing by its decision not to allow him back into the country, an official said today.

Pop diva Kylie Minogue will hold her homecoming Australian tour at the end of next year, after cancelling the event earlier this year when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, her promoter said today.

ABOUT 70 pilot whales died after becoming stranded on a remote beach in southern Australia, bringing the total to 130 over two days, a government official said yesterday.

About 70 pilot whales died after becoming stranded on a remote beach in southern Australia, bringing the total to 130 over two days, a government official said today.

More than 250 passengers were evacuated from a Thai Airways jet after a tyre blew, sparking several small fires, during a heavy landing today at southern Australia’s Melbourne Airport, an official said.

LIKE bank holiday trippers, the first modern humans who migrated from Africa probably headed for the seaside, new research suggests.

Paul Hester, the drummer from popular 1980s Australian rock band Crowded House, hanged himself in a park in southern Australia, an emergency services spokeswoman said today.

A 10ft shark attacked a children’s regatta in southern Australia in a terrifying incident that could have come from the film Jaws.

Terrified residents had to leap into the sea to escape a raging wildfire that killed at least 10 people in southern Australia.

At least eight people were killed in a wildfire that raced through southern Australia today, forcing terrified residents to leap into the sea to avoid the flames, emergency officials said.

A fire swept through a backpacker hostel in southern Australia today, killing a Scottish tourist, police said.

Trainer Saeed bin Suroor is confident that Godolphin’s royal blue silks will play a big part in the Vodafone Oaks at Epsom tomorrow.

An Australian and a Scot drowned today trying to rescue a German tourist in rough seas off Kangaroo Island in southern Australia, police said.

Protesters and police clashed today near a remote detention centre for illegal immigrants in southern Australia.