The accident happened about 8.30pm on Tuesday when the wooden boat packed with nearly 300 passengers sank in the River Niger, ...

Stocks have held firm and safe haven assets such as government bonds and the dollar gained ground, as investors held back ...

The Israeli military says regular infantry and armoured units are joining its ground operations in Lebanon, where ...

Russian troops have taken charge of the eastern Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, a bastion that had resisted intense attacks since ...

Essendon survived a late fright to cling to a tense and heated three-point AFLW win over Sydney at Footscray's Mission ...

Jahrome Hughes has become the first Kiwi halfback to win the Dally M in 32 years, holding out James Tedesco by one point in ...

Israel's foreign minister says he has declared the UN secretary-general "persona non grata" because he failed to ...

One of two California doctors who were among the five people charged in the overdose death of Friends star Matthew Perry is ...

The first plane has taken off and landed at what will be Australia's next international airport. A test pilot hit the ...

Vuhledar also sits close to a railway line connecting Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine in ...

Hawthorn were aided by the stiff breeze in the second term and dominated territory, forcing Gold Coast to scrap and defend ...

An experienced pilot likely became disorientated while flying through clouds before crashing into a mountain, an ...