The USS New Orleans was struck by a Japanese “Long Lance” torpedo during the November 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga, off the ...

Another deadly Indonesian boat accident – again involving a fast boat ferrying tourists from Nusa Penida to Bali that ...

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the steepest annual decline in live coral cover following the worst bleaching ...

Alamere Falls cascades 40 feet down a coastal bluff directly onto the beach before merging with the Pacific Ocean, creating one of the rarest natural wonders in the United States. This isn’t your ...

Unemployed and seeking a better life, Oscar Speck pushed his kayak into the water of the Danube and began paddling downriver. He didn't stop until he reached Australia.

Very few people know what it’s like to recover, physically and emotionally, from a shark bite. But some of the ones who do ...

I’m not one to camp, which made Robbie Arnott’s Dusk — in which two twins fight to capture a wild puma of the same name ...

Santos faces new legal challenge over plan to “preserve” abandoned wellhead as regulator acts against Woodside over safety ...

If you stand on a Western Australian beach and gaze into the sunset, you'll see stunning reds, oranges, yellows and purples ...

The twin discoveries underscore regional concerns over a spike in international cartels using the so-called Pacific Narco ...

Kevin Parle became the prime suspect in the murder and although two men were arrested and charged, the cases against them ...