AUSTRALIA

Scientists believe that the 250-mile impact zone was created over 300 million years ago after an asteroid broke into two 6-mile-wide fragments.

Students at schools with suspension policies were 1.6 times more likely than kids in schools without them to use marijuana the next year, according to a new study.

The foreign ministers of South Korea, Japan and China on Saturday hold their first meeting in three years, in a bid to warm frosty ties.

The AIIB could emerge as a rival to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is dominated by Japan and the United States.

By the time Ebola was declared an emergency in August last year, about 1,000 people had died from the virus.

Three independent experts say there's physical evidence a Russian Buk missile shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over East Ukraine on July 17.

It's unclear what role the individuals had in connection with the attack at the Bardo museum Wednesday that killed 21 people.

The death toll in the Bardo Museum attack risen to 23, including two dead gunmen. At least 18 foreign tourists were killed.

Australia has tried to convince Indonesia to grant clemency to two of its nationals sentenced to death for smuggling drugs.

China has employed diplomacy, and more unorthodox measures, to secure the return of fugitives who have fled abroad.

Beijing joins global efforts to help an island nation in the Pacific recover from a storm that devastated most of its infrastructure.

"Kym and Robert were definitely attracted to each other from the get-go."

Nearly half of Vanuatu's population has been affected by food, water and supply shortages, government officials say.

Cyclone Pam's winds of up to 185 mph left a devastating effect on the small South Pacific island nation.

Australians were the third largest group of visitors to Indonesia after Singaporeans and Malaysians.

Between August and February, the Border Force Counter-Terrorism Unit conducted nearly 76,000 "real-time" assessments at eight major airports.

Millions of dollars in aid are being sent to Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam.

President Baldwin Londsdale added that most of the buildings in the capital, Port Vila, had also been destroyed by the storm.

Making landfall in the tiny Pacific island nation Friday, the Category 5 cyclone has caused widespread damage in the region.

Giuliana Rancic responds to critics regarding her weight at the Astra Awards in Australia.

Without a new Gulfstream plane, the ministry says, trips to African nations, Australia and other destinations will be called off.