Victoria, Australia News

Which hospitals and doctors should we trust? Mark Metherell finds that the medical profession doesn't want to say.

A bomb-sniffing dog that ran away from its Australian army handler during an ambush in Afghanistan more than a year ago has returned to her unit.

Canberra, Australia - Child sex abuse is widespread in Australia's remote Outback Aboriginal settlements where boys and girls trade sex for marijuana and gasoline for sniffing, a report found on Tuesday.

New laws providing more teeth to the police to tackle street violence have been introduced in the Australian state of Victoria following a string of attacks, including on Indian students.

Singer Carole King performs onstage during the 9th annual 'A Home for the Holidays' held at REN-MAR studios on December 9, 2007 in Los Angeles, California.

Sabi the black Labrador is getting a celebrity welcome home. A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year.

There's a lively part of Canberra - at least at night - just a trot from Parliament House.

NEW DELHI: As Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd landed in Mumbai, India Wednesday conveyed its concerns over recent attacks on Indian students in that country and stressed the need for Canberra to take "effective steps" to prevent recurrence of such incidents.

The potential closure of beds at Sea Lake Hospital continues a long and sorry saga of health service cutbacks in rural Victoria, increasing the risks to rural patients, further eroding rural communities and once again underlining the need for urgent government action to resolve the statewide crisis, the Rural Doctors Association of Victoria warned ...

The rekindled romance between Britney Spears and her manager boyfriend, Jason Trawick , seems to be going strong.

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Baby Z had a one in a million chance of developing a rare metabolic disorder called molybdenum cofactor deficiency and zero chance of avoiding the inevitable death sentence that comes with it.

PORTLAND Boxing Club's Leigh Renton won his way through to the Victorian Boxing Titles on Saturday night with a convincing win over Lilydale's Franco Valenzuela in Geelong.

Low-carb diets can put you in a bad mood. DIETS low in carbohydrates that limit intake of foods like bread, pasta and potatoes produce good weight loss, but make people grumpy, a study has found.

Two fires are raging out of control as the state swelters on the fourth consecutive day of a spring heatwave.

Hawkins was the public face of the Myer float, and there were no less than seven pictures of her in the prospectus.

AUSTRALIANS are leaving the country as never before. The soaring Aussie dollar and low international air fares pushed the number of Australians taking holidays overseas above 600,000 in September with the number leaving in the past year hitting a record 6 million.

In yet another attack on Indian students here, a 22-year-old youth was punched on his face by a group of Australians, who also told the victim that "in this place there is no home for you". Sai Ratan Tiwari, who hails from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, was on his way to a temple along with a friend yesterday when two Australians stopped him and asked ...

VICTORIA is bracing for potential bushfires this week with the first heatwave of the season rapidly drying out bushland.

A hungry lion leaps on to the bonnet of an open-topped Land Rover, snarling straight into the faces of a safari park family - " and, amazingly, they just roar with laughter.