Darwin, Australia News

Hilton Worldwide will add a 237-room DoubleTree by Hilton in Cairns by fourth quarter, following the conversion of the Holiday Inn Cairns.

CLIVE Palmer wants Australian Federal Police recalled from the operation to retrieve the remains of victims of the MH17 disaster, saying the risk is too great.

During the night, the four inmates at a prison in Darwin, Australia climbed over the fence, where they met partners on the outside.

Bruce and Denise Morcombe have backed renewed calls by high-profile broadcaster Derryn Hinch for a national sex offenders register to be established.

A SERIAL escapee and a dangerous sex offender both broke out of Aussie jails today.

They protect your feet from the elements, they keep you from stepping on sharp and disturbingly squishy things and they help you get where you need to go.

AN ALLEGED sex offender is on the loose after sexually assaulting a woman and leaving her "distressed and naked" on the corner of a main road in Nightcliff on Sunday morning.

Dr Philip Nitschke, the face of assisted suicide in Australia, is a controversial and divisive figure whose methods have fallen foul of the Australian Medical Association .

A BOUNCER was so scared after a man allegedly threatened to shoot him while brandishing a weapon that he scaled a 2.5m fence to save himself, a court has heard.

As you can see in the picture below, a map of Australia is repeatedly used on the Speedo design - but Tasmania is missing.

An F-35B Lightning II with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 taxis across the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, Aug. 7, 2013.

Darwin resident Maureen O'Sullivan has asked why a dog that bit her has not been destroyed, a fortnight after she was attacked at a car yard near the Darwin city centre.

'My son saved his attacker's life': Father who brutally beat teen he caught raping his son, 11, reveals it was only his boy's pleas that saved the pedophile from death as he says his family refuse to hide Bill Clinton 'has a busty blond mistress nicknamed "Energizer" by his Secret Service detail who work to hide the woman from Hillary' Body of ... (more)

As a microphone for the lonely and brokenhearted, Roymackonkey, out of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, have produced a rock sound that is fierce at its core but has a soft edge that is more soulful than your typical Aussie power rockers.

A public policy expert is playing down the significance of a new report showing the Northern Territory economy is the second strongest in the nation, saying the figures have been skewed by a giant resources project.

Prince George can't talk, can barely walk, yet that's enough for magazines to slap him on the cover while CNN devoted a 30-minute documentary that recounted every snippet of video of the royal toddler.

Pro Russian separatists are being blamed for firing a Russian built surface-to-air missile to bring down MH17 in eastern Ukraine A blue passport bearing the distinctive Australian coat-of-arms has appeared in a Russian television news report from the crash site of MH17 in Ukraine.

MORE than a score of Australians who have fought in Syria and Iraq are already back on home soil, fuelling fears of terrorist conspiracies such as the foiled bid to attack the AFL Grand Final.

During the Second World War , the Pacific was the site of one of the most grueling fighting known to man, and for a time, Australia was at the forefront of the struggle against the Axis.

For the first time, Chinese troops will train with Australian and US soldiers in a land exercise in the Northern Territory.