On a visit to his home town outside Tehran, this Iranian Australian joined the protests last Thursday night, then the regime's suppression methods turned from tear gas to live fire.

The US president says he has accepted María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize at a meeting in the White House, on account of "the work I have done".

While it can be gifted, refused or displayed, the Nobel Peace Prize itself — once awarded — belongs to its original recipient forever.

A broad of coalition of Australia's most influential religious leaders have urged the prime minister to scrap Labor's proposal to outlaw the promotion of racial hatred.

Locals on Queensland's far north tip have shared their account after seeing an Indonesian fishing boat within a stone's throw of the mainland.

When it comes to extreme rainfall, it is hard for climate scientists to say what's natural and what's caused by climate change. But they do know the most extreme events are dropping more rain, more often. This is why.