Bernhard Schlink took us inside the mind of an SS guard in The Reader. His latest work explores a modern country still shadowed by the past.

A mother who fled war-torn Ukraine to start a new life in Australia has drowned in Western Australia.

A Perth boy who survived a quad bike crash in Bali is finally home.

Mitch Marsh's return to the BBL for the Perth Scorchers was a disaster, out lbw first ball off the bowling of Will Sutherland.

The lawyer for one of two brothers accused of shooting dead a woman in Caboolture has claimed his client acted in response to an armed threat.

Two fishermen who died after their boat capsized off of a South Australian beach were retrieving craypots when they got into trouble.

A tree deemed safe by a Melbourne council has come crashing down into a home as a mother and her two children were just metres away.

A man is in custody after a suspicious fire at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, which caused significant damage to a heritage-listed grandstand.

An investigation is under way after a man's body was found at a home in Melbourne's south-east.

A major manhunt for six people involved in an alleged attempted tobacco heist that turned into a kidnapping in Sydney’s south ...

A Queensland has fronted a NSW court after he allegedly shot at police during a pursuit in Sydney's south-west on New Year's ...

An eight-year-old girl has been left with horrific burns after her jumper ignited while she was standing near a fire pit outside her home.