A shadow industry is transforming American delivery rooms into a multi-million-dollar empire for global elites.

In quiet suburbs across the nation, women are being recruited as surrogates in a massive, controversial birth tourism scheme.

A teenage boy who suffered critical injuries when he was hit by a car a week ago has lost his brave fight for life.

Chris Rua Antony, 16, was struck by a Toyota C-HR station wagon which lost control at Narre Warren South in Melbourne's south-east on February 13. 

The Laos backpackers hostel where two Aussies died is finally set to reopen after a recent renovation and name change.

Best friends Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones, both 19, died while holidaying in Vang Vieng, north of the Laotian capital, Vientiane, in November 2024.

A group of MPs are considering launching a parliamentary probe into the role of UK trade envoys after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, it is understood.

The Business and Trade Committee will meet on Tuesday to discuss its options, as police continue to investigate the allegations against the former prince following the release of files related to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.  

A celebrity favourite Sydney hair salon figurehead has broken her silence after scathing comments about a bride's wedding day hairdo went viral when they were accidentally sent to the bride herself.

Marilyn Koch, co-founder and matriarch behind renowned Double Bay hairstylist Joh Bailey, spoke out after the hurtful messages were read by newlywed Jessica Leis.

An Aussie small business operator will take further action after two young women were allegedly captured on CCTV stealing from her market stall.

Duverah owner Jess Adelman was selling handmade jewellery at the local Eumundi Markets on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on Wednesday when she noticed the pair acting suspiciously near her stall.

Dear Vanessa,

My mum died suddenly in January. I'm the one sitting at her kitchen table going through her paperwork - bank statements, insurance letters, passwords scribbled in notebooks. It feels surreal.

What's made it worse is realising she never made a proper will.

Australia should not be in the business of helping Islamic State fellow travellers find their way back to Australian streets.

That is the core of what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week when asked about the so-called ISIS brides and their children attempting to leave camps in northern Syria.

The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has lashed out at Nigel Farage and Reform UK accusing them of 'dividing' people and sharing 'Trump's admiration of Vladimir Putin'.

Sir Ed's comments came today as he spoke out against the rise of Reform UK, equating their vision to a UK version of 'Trump's America', and claimed the Liberal Democrats had 'proudly' led opposition to the US president in the UK.

They were awards given to The Beatles at the peak of their fame - but have been out of sight for 60 years.

Now the gongs, including one for their 1966 smash hit Paperback Writer – a number one in both the UK and US charts – are to go under the hammer this coming week.

As the home of the Bronte sisters, the picturesque Yorkshire village of Haworth and the windswept moors that surround it have long been a place of pilgrimage for lovers of literature.

But now, after the release of the much-hyped Hollywood version of Wuthering Heights, a tidal wave of tourists has begun descending onto its tiny cobbled streets.

The Australian government has vowed to respond accordingly after US President Donald Trump used a little-known trade law to reimplement his sweeping tariffs, set to take effect in just days.

The US Supreme Court ruled Trump's trade policies unconstitutional on Friday in a landmark 6-3 ruling.