An estimated $4 million worth of hay has spontaneously combusted, animals at the zoo are being sprayed with water and politicians are clashing over water restrictions - Adelaide's heatwave is getting to everyone. Authorities are also concerned about healt

An Australian Special Forces explosives detection dog has been found alive and well almost 14 months after going missing in action (MIA) in Afghanistan. Sabi was found by a US soldier at an isolated patrol base in north-eastern Uruzgan last week.

The US Senate has overwhelmingly voted to give the Government unprecedented powers over cigarette makers, overturning decades of resistance by the powerful tobacco industry. The bill, adopted by 79 votes for and 17 against, will give the Food and Drug

An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress she said had almost $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites on Wednesday. The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her elderly mother

Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman are brutally stabbed to death outside Nicole's home in Brentwood, California, in what quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the century.

The leader of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela, has been jailed for life for sabotage. Seven other defendants, including the former secretary-general of the banned African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu, were also given

An Australian researcher says a drug used to treat schizophrenia could help treat cancer. Sarah Ongeley from the University of New South Wales made the claims, based on preliminary research on an anti-psychotic drug, at this week's Australian Society for

A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials says. The black Labrador helped enforcement officials who carried out raids last week

Health Minister Nicola Roxon has confirmed there are now 878 confirmed cases of swine flu in Australia, as Singapore advises its residents not to travel to the worst-hit state, Victoria. Victoria has the most confirmed cases at 752. New South Wales is

Despite being plentiful in number, Australia's two largest populations of koalas are so heavily inbred, they risk instant extinction, say researchers. A recent study of koala populations on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia, and French Is