Tag: Australia

VATICAN CITY — A plain white helmet like the pope’s skullcap. The Holy See’s crossed keys seal stamped on his white and yellow jersey over his heart. Dutch-born cyclist Rien ...

CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian national day of mourning for the late Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday centered on Parliament House, where dignitaries placed sprigs of golden wattle — the ...

HOBART, Australia — About 230 whales have been stranded on Tasmania’s west coast, just days after 14 sperm whales were found beached on an island off the southeastern coast. The ...

Two sisters of Ghanaian descent have been “unenrolled” from a rural Victoria, Australia high school after they were suspended for not tying their hair back earlier this year. In July, ...

A father has plunged 65 feet to his death in front of his horrified daughters. The 79-year-old man and his two daughters were hiking at Purling Brook Falls in Springbrook, ...

Is this dastardly, alien looking creature actually a rare, deep sea shark? You better be-reef it. An Australian fisherman posted a photo of the beast of the deep blue — one ...

An Australian PR maven has recounted a 1996 phone call with supermodel Linda Evangelista, in which she allegedly “went berserk” over a snippy newspaper headline. Max Markson, dubbed the “king ...

A 77-year-old man was attacked and killed Sunday by a wild kangaroo that authorities believe he kept as a pet at his home in southwest Australia, police said. His death ...

Queen Elizabeth II penned a top-secret letter to residents of Sydney, Australia — and it won’t be opened until the year 2085. The monarch, who died last Thursday at the ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s prime minister on Monday defended an obscure and longstanding protocol that bars the nation’s parliament from sitting for 15 days following a British monarch’s death. Lawmakers ...