The male passenger asked a Pakistani man and woman if they had a bomb in their luggage.

There have been another 231 reports of Ross River virus infections in a week as the outbreak that has already caused some Victorians months of pain and fatigue continues to grow.

A former war correspondent arrested in Bali for allegedly possessing hashish has revealed his former employer has agreed to pay for his PTSD treatment when he is released from the notorious Kerobokan jail.

The Canberra Fisherman's Club is calling for more bins along the territory's waterways to prevent dead fish and other material from endangering wildlife and repelling visitors.

The career of embattled speaker Telmo Languiller is hanging in the balance as Victoria's parliament begins a forensic audit into whether he rorted a "second residence" allowance worth almost $40,000.

A teenage girl with autism facing deportation after eight years living in Australia has been granted permanent residency, following an eleventh-hour intervention by the Assistant Immigration Minister.

Basketball has plummeted into an abyss, in terms of attractiveness to Australian women, compared to the sporting steam train launched by the behemoth AFL.

Hit TV mini-series House of Hancock will not be broadcast or streamed again after Channel 9 made a grovelling apology for its portrayal of mining magnate Gina Rinehart and her family.

Industry heads cite global factors for surge; see the currency reaching $US2000 by the end of the year.

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has no plans to cut interest rates, and worries that he did he would make an already indebted nation "more fragile".

Boris Johnson works hard to appear as if he has just got out of bed after a rough night. Enter Australia's Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop.

Staff at Essendon Airport, and friends of some of those who died in Tuesday's plane crash have gathered for a memorial service within the shopping centre where the accident happened.

The bend was bigger than he thought. All he could see were trees. He pulled hard on the wheel and the military truck left the road. He hit his head and everything went dark.

She has done it once but Jane Hiatt has pledged to run seven marathons in seven days in seven states again this year.

US President Donald Trump declared himself among friends as he began speaking Friday at an annual gathering of conservative activists and told the crowd that he would serve them well.