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A GIRAFFE in South Africa died when his head hit a highway overpass while being transported in a wide-open container.

HE SAID what? A television host has enraged viewers - and his female co-host - for shaming a Bachelorette star and calling her a "sl*t".

Russia has called for a second United Nations Security Council resolution before Australian and international armed forces are allowed on the ground to support efforts to retrieve the dead and investigate how Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down.

Russia faces having assets seized around the world after international court rules it has to pay $50billion to shareholders of energy company Putin's government destroyed Charles Barkley offers to pay funeral costs of Philly carjacking crash victims aged 7, 10 and 15 as two suspects are charged with murder Israeli leader Netanyahu vows to continue ... (more)

A senior analyst with the Commonwealth Bank's insurance arm has accused some cancer patients of "taking advantage" of life insurance by setting up policies soon before they die.

CHRIS UHLMANN: Queensland's Liberal National Government has been unashamedly "tough on crime", increasing sentences, and restricting bail provisions for many offences.

THAT'S two women. And that's a freight train just behind them. So how did the lucky pair survive being run over? Footage reveals just how close they came to a fatal encounter.

National Guard on US-Mexico border can't make arrests but serve as 'a powerful reminder that what you are doing is a crime', says Rick Perry One sleepy dog! Grover the pug shares mammoth yawns with the camera as owner films him every morning for two weeks An adorable new home video shows one little dog who is certainly not ready for his early ... (more)

TASMANIAN Police say they have made the biggest drug bust in state history and crippled the criminal activities of the local chapter of the Rebels Outlaw Motor Cycle Club.

Australia's Bentham IMF Ltd , which funds litigation, on Tuesday said it has filed court proceedings seeking A$50 million from a traffic forecaster on behalf of 30 investors who claim to have suffered loss because of optimistic predictions.

Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey has been officially sworn into office at an elaborate ceremony at Parliament House in Brisbane.

Instinct means a lot to Australian choreographer Penelope Mullen. It was instinct that took her on a life-changing trip to Brazil a decade ago, a snap decision to jump on a plane to any destination as a way to deal with a debilitating illness.

The families of 38 Australians and permanent residents have been dragged into the geopolitical brinksmanship of Russia and the West.

ALMOST 50 per cent of white Australians believe Aboriginal people are given unfair advantages by the government, a new study shows.

Timberwolf the koala was lucky to be alive Monday after surviving a terrifying 88-kilometre ride down a busy Australian freeway clinging to the bottom of a car.

The reigning Australian Tree Climbing Women's Champion and Asia Pacific Women's Champion wants to do her country proud as one of the 50 competitors in the International Tree Climbing Championships in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this weekend.

THE Western Line is the city's worst. It is overcrowded. It has the most late trains, and is among the most dangerous in terms of violent assaults.

THE parents of Fatima Dyczynski completed their pilgrimage of pain to the MH17 crash site last night, laying flowers atop plane debris.

Terrifying moment SWAT team stormed a plane after passenger told stewardess 'I want to blow up Canada' and U.S. fighter jets escorted jet back to Toronto An 18-year-old Gold Coast girl has won her bid to have a $680,000-a-year drug subsidised so that she can receive ongoing medical treatments to keep her alive.

In two famous - and famously lengthy - experiments, scientists wait for pitch to drip from a funnel.