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A 43-year-old Australian escaped a possible death by holding back an arrow that was shot at him with his smartphone. The arrow pierced the phone but only the point came...

Australian doctors have discovered particularly rare twins for the first time during pregnancy. It concerns a so-called semi-identical twin. The pregnancy of four years ago...

The Australian police have shot down a man at the Brisbane airport who has threatened armed with a knife. He also threatened to detonate a bomb.

An Australian woman was bitten in her butt by a snake coming out of a toilet bowl. The 1.5 meter long python proved non-toxic. The victim sustained a scratch.

Many bathers in Australia have been painfully in contact with the tentacles of Portuguese warships, a collection of poisonous polyps that are also called jellyfish by their appearance....

A 30-year-old Australian has accidentally been shot in the head with a harpoon gun and can, miraculously, retell it. The man intervened in an argument between two other men...

The Australian police in the Brisbane area spent 18 months longer on a search for a body than was necessary. Agents used an outdated map on Google Maps and so...

On the east coast of Australia a surfer has been badly injured by a bite from a shark. The 36-year-old has lost a lot of blood and deep wounds in his leg have been left with the attack, according to broadcaster ABC.

The woman who was arrested in Brisbane on Sunday because she is suspected of having put needles in strawberries is a former employee of a strawberry grower. That is what Australian media report. On Monday, the fifty-year-old My Ut Trinh was brought before the judge.

The Queensland police have arrested a 50-year-old woman suspected of having put needles and pins in strawberries. For weeks, research has preceded this with national cooperation from various Australian government departments. The suspected perpetrator is likely to be brought before the judge in Brisbane on Monday. Because the investigation has not yet been completed, the public prosecutor did not want to say anything about her.

The Australian authorities killed two tiger sharks after tourists were bitten by the Whitsunday Islands. It is unclear whether these animals were also responsible for the attacks on a 46-year-old tourist from Tasmania and a twelve-year scholarship, message broadcaster ABC.

A third strawberry grower in Australia was hit by needles and pins found in the fruits. The police fears that six companies are the victims of the needle stick.

An agent from the Australian city of Brisbane is on trial for the murder of his baby. The 37-year-old Colin David Randall killed his ten-week-old son in 2014 when he was not transferred, as he wanted.

The organization of the Commonwealth Games has included it for Camilla, the wife of Prince Charles. The Duchess of Cornwall seemed uninterested during the spectacular opening ceremony of the sporting event in the Australian city of Gold Coast.

Most people would think twice before they would come close to a spider that is bigger than a male hand, which makes a whistling sound and has great poisonous teeth. But when a group of Australians saw such a huge spider dangling from a branch above a flood, they decided to save the animal.

The north of the Australian state of Queensland suffers from heavy flooding due to days of rainfall. In some parts more than 1000 milliliters of water has fallen in a week's time, Australian media reports. The authorities have declared the region a 'disaster area'.

In the Coral Sea the wreck was found of the American aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The Lexington foundered on 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea after being hit by several Japanese torpedoes and aircraft bombs.

What motivates the 49-year-old trucker who travels more than 20 kilometers on a motorway at Brisbane with a truck that is ablaze? With that question, the police are in Queensland.

An unemployed Australian has been a doctor for months in a children's hospital in Brisbane. The judge fined Nicholas Brett Delaney a fine of nearly 2000 euros, reports Australian media.

An Australian court has sent an unsuccessful text message on a phone as a testament of a deceased man.

An Australian teenager died after taking weight in the gym for too much hay on his fork. The 15-year-old boy was only in the gym and could not control the almost 100 kilograms at the bank press and was crushed.

By a military aircraft accident on the east coast of Australia Saturday three American marines were missing and probably killed. The search was stopped Sunday morning, a defense officer reported to CNN.

In Australian public representations, many elected are busy with their descent. They feverishly research their family roots, but not because they like it. An old Australian law prohibits MEPs from having a different nationality. And the law suddenly makes victims in politics.

Remarkable images of a man who wants to step into a train with a huge refrigerator, go like a running fire over the internet. On surveillance images it can be seen that the man in Australian Brisbane knows the big ranger on board, but his adventure does not take long.

Australia has set an ultimatum for illegal refugees in the country. If they do not submit an application for asylum before October 1, they will be expelled.

An Australian rapper has suffered a wet suit to escape an alleged attempt a large bill. The man stuffed himself full in the expensive restaurant Omeros Bros Main Beach and dived to Australian media then into the sea.

Public life in northeastern Australia resumed slowly, after the damage cyclone Debbie has done. The work at the Port of Townsville is resumed Wednesday morning, the port of Mackay remains equally close is restored to the injury.

The cyclone Debbie arrived Tuesday in northeast Australia. Hurricane with winds of 260 kilometers per hour as disastrous and devastating defined and moves slowly westward. Australian media fear that the cyclone causes a lot of damage, because Debbie moving at only 6 mph.

The Australian authorities have called on 30,000 people to leave their home because of hurricane Debbie. The coastal areas are plagued by high winds and rain in the north and east of Australia. It would go to the largest evacuation since 1974. When Hurricane Tracy devastated the major parts of the city of Darwin.

A 42-year-old Australian is suspected to have over 150 kids online ambushed by posing as the popular singer Justin Bieber. He is charged with over 900 offenses, including rape.