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You'll soon need a Real ID to travel domestically. Here's what that means ...

The joy – and confusion – of spending Christmas in the Aussie heat - While most travellers fly via Singapore on their way ...

As they say in show business, the show must go on – but when a company performs outside, that is sometimes easier said than ...

A hippo smacks her lips grazing three metres from my tent at 3am. At campfire breakfast, a leopard breezily strides past.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Check and follow your Bushfire Survival Plan. Stay alert for potential dangers such as smoke, increased traffic and falling trees. Drive carefully in the area as smoke may reduce ...

Global markets brace for volatility as Trump’s tariffs take effect Monday, though some say crypto concerns are overblown.

Many Americans, especially female content creators, are pushing back against overconsumption and pledging to buy less — or even nothing beyond essentials — as well as not repurchasing a product they ...

There are times I would like to be a koala, before the colonial extermination for their fur, the chlamydia plague and the ...

There are places on this Earth where I have felt so close to heaven that I could almost touch it, hear it, see it. The Lake District in England, one early autumn day in 2013, was among them. I was ...

England suffered more torment at the Women’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to allow a dominant Australia to assume total control of the day/night Test in Melbourne. The ignominy of a 16-0 clean ...

About 50,000 of these tiny bats will later return to Barker’s Cave in the Undara Volcanic National Park, four hours’ drive or ...