After a defence employee handed confidential information to weapons company Thales, only to join the company later, a former defence minister has blasted the defence department that continues to award contracts to the same company.

The plane was forced to circle above Newcastle Airport for several hours before its pilot made a "textbook" emergency landing earlier this year. The pilot and two passengers walked away unhurt. 

A woman with dissociative identity disorder has almost thrown up in the witness box, while being cross-examined about alleged child sexual abuse by her father.

Something soft and cuddly on a bed can be a welcome sight if that something is inanimate, like a pillow — but in the early hours of Wednesday morning an Adelaide couple were forced to contend with a friendly, if unexpected, intruder.

The Archbishop had faced calls to resign after a report last week found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church of England's most prolific serial abuser.