John Travolta, star of hits such as Pulp Fiction and Grease, has been surprised with an honorary Palme ‌d'Or prize at the ...

Forty years ago this week, ambitious 42-year-old Labor treasurer Paul Keating warned that Australia risked becoming a "banana republic".

The late Dame Marie Bashir and her husband Nicholas Shehadie were pioneering collectors of Aboriginal art. Their ...

Pitting investors against first home buyers in the name of intergenerational equity, Labor's fifth budget aims to ...

The streets of Cuba's capital Havana have erupted in mass protests, with citizens angry over ongoing power cuts.

An odd couple is a movie staple at least as old as the screwball comedies of the 1940s. With all the banter and the bickering ...

Outback women are expected to supervise their children's education for years without getting paid, as a five-decade ...

US health officials are monitoring reports of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda ‌and providing technical ...

Starbucks says it is laying off 300 corporate employees and closing some offices in the United States as part of its ongoing ...

A rehearsal for the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Austria has restarted after a curtain failed to open during ...

It was a budget-laden week in Parliament.

Maldivian authorities have suspended a difficult operation to recover the bodies of four Italian divers believed trapped ...