Northern Chile has been hit by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake and tsunami just a day after the country was rattled by a magnitude 8.2. According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center a tsunami was generated by the earthquake and may have been destructive ...

The parents of the Al-Jazeera journalist, Peter Greste, who is detained in Egypt on terrorism charges, say they've been put through a "form of psychological torture". Lois and Juris were speaking in Brisbane after their Australian-born son was denied bail by a ...

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is "an extraordinarily difficult exercise" but it will go on as long as possible, Australia's prime minister said today. In Perth, Tony Abbott said although no debris had been found that could be linked to the plane, ...

No debris spotted in an area off the west coast of Australia has been recovered, a Malaysian minister involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 said, adding he hoped for some news soon. The first plane back from the search on Saturday, ...

As frustration was setting in, calmer seas returned today and the search for the remains of Flight MH370 began anew in remote waters of the Indian Ocean off western Australia. Gale-force winds that forced an all-day delay yesterday died down, allowing a ...

The actress and her Coldplay frontman husband announced their 'conscious uncoupling' in a blog on Paltrow's lifestyle website Goop. "It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," the blog reads. "We have been working hard for well ...

Blustery conditions in the southern Indian Ocean are expected to ease this morning allowing authorities to resume the hunt for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner. Gale-force winds and heavy rain forced a day long delay yesterday, but the Australian Maritime Safety ...

Blustery conditions in the southern Indian Ocean are expected to ease this morning allowing authorities to resume the hunt for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner. Gale-force winds and heavy rain forced a daylong delay yesterday, but Australian Maritime Safety ...

Kyle Mills takes a wicket against England at the World T20 Cup. - Source: Getty Images. The Black Caps have beaten England by nine runs courtesy of the Duckworth/Lewis method after rain disrupted their World T20 opener this morning. New Zealand was ...

A fourth person has been confirmed killed by an explosion that flattened two New York City apartment buildings. Nine occupants of the buildings are unaccounted for. Fire Department spokesman Jim Long says the body of an adult male has been pulled from ...

A huge explosion levelled two apartment buildings in New York City, killing two women and injuring more than 20 people. More than a dozen people were missing and two of those who were hurt had life-threatening injuries, fire officials said. Smoke billowed ...

An asteroid the size of a football field is passing close to Earth, but NASA isn't worried. The asteroid, named 2014 DX110, isn't expected to make impact or cause any damage as it sails past, at a distance closer than the moon. It was expected to be closest to ...

Syrian army troops have killed 175 rebels, many of them al-Qaida-linked fighters, in an ambush described as one of the deadliest attacks by government forces against fighters near Damascus, according to state media. An opposition group said the dawn ...

Ukraine's president and opposition leaders signed a wide-ranging agreement today aimed at ending a three-month crisis that exploded this week into violence that killed more than 100 people. The agreement, thrashed out during intense overnight ...

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for "aggravated" homosexual acts, officials said today. President Museveni announced his decision to governing party lawmakers, said government ...

The toll for the crash of an Algerian military transport plane has been reduced to 76 dead and one survivor, a civil defence spokesman has said. Lieutenant Nassim Bernaoui of Algerian Civil Defence said the military plane carried a total of 77 people, not 78.