A bloody competition in which New Zealand children are encouraged to trap and kill wild cats has produced its biggest haul yet, with nearly 400 animals dead....

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has landed in Australia after pleading guilty to violating American espionage law, in a deal with the US government...

Pablo Picasso was of the view that the “purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls”. The purpose of the hand basins above which his...

At first the police thought they were dead. A three-week land and sea search had not managed to locate Tom Phillips and his three young children after they...

As he lay in the dirt beneath the car, Joe McDowell, an Australian holidaymaker, could just about make out the leather sandals of the gunman who shot him....

Ancient bones found by a farmer while he was wandering in the outback have proved to be the remains of a prehistoric flying reptile that had the wingspan of...

Across the southern Australian Alps, the only part of a largely arid continent to get regular winter snows, the wild horses that roam the high plains are, for...

After drinking his usual ten beers at the Pink Panther pub, Paddy Moriarty shuffled out of the bar with his dog, Kellie, hopped on a red quad bike and drove...

A snail’s pace is about one metre per hour. That is 22 times faster than Florence, a German tunnel-boring machine that is supposed to be creating a passage...

Thousands of people took part in Maori-led protests and strikes against the waning influence of the indigenous people in New Zealand’s culture and politics....