Fifteen firefighters and two CFA tankers attended a property in Axedale near Bendigo following reports of a strong smell of gas.

Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters.

Animal welfare groups voiced outrage today after the restaurant critic AA Gill said he shot a baboon on safari "to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone". In a Sunday Times column, Gill recounted in detail how he shot the creature from

Up to 400 barrels of oil per day have been pouring into the Timor Sea to Australia's north.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has just released video footage from a whale hunt that occurred late last month.Baird's beaked whales are rare, but are exempt from whaling bans since they are still classified as small cetaceans. Around 60 Ba

No evidence that increased numbers of magpies have caused declines in songbirds and confirms that populations of prey species are not determined by the numbers of their predators.

DOZENS of decapitated bodies at the top of Ridgeway Hill are believed to date from a time when Viking raiding parties were roaming the area. The remains were originally thought to be Iron Age or early Roman due to pottery from this period found

How should police handle a distraught young mother after the shooting death of her baby? They should try to soothe and calm her, call psychological specialists to her side, and perhaps offer her a cup of water, right? Louisiana police TASERED her!

OPTIMISTS called the first world war "the war to end all wars". Philosopher George Santayana demurred. In its aftermath he declared: "Only the dead have seen the end of war". History has proved him right, of course.