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A driver, thought to be a teenager with a passenger, led police on a high-speed car chase near Melbourne, Australia – even stopping to refuel on the way.

Higher water temperatures in 2016 caused the worst destruction of coral ever recorded on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a study has found.

Australia’s harsh asylum laws are supported by both main parties and are credited with reducing the number of refugees attempting to reach the country by boat. But they are deeply controversial, as BBC World’s Katie Silver reports.

Image copyright A Current Affair/9News.com.au Image caption The property in Marion Street, Bankstown, which was demolished in error An Australian businessman returned to his home in Sydney to find his property had been demolished because builders targeted the wrong address. Steve Ballas said he received a call at work from …

An Australian doctor who gave his wife a fatal injection of insulin has been found guilty of murder. Brian Crickitt, 63, killed Christine Crickitt, 61, with the fast-acting hormone at their home in Sydney. He did an internet search for “intentional insulin overdose” two days before the murder, the New …

Image copyright Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Image caption Protesters were dragged away by security guards at Australia’s AACTA awards Actress and director Sophie Mathisen never imagined that for her very first ACCTAs ceremony she would be dressed as a giant sausage. Stars including Isla Fisher and Mel Gibson arrived in Sydney for …

Image copyright Ian Lloyd Neubauer Image caption French tourists Anthony Fenech and Pierre Stoar are travelling around Australia in their van Its official name is Tamarama but it’s known as Glamarama for the beautiful people who sunbake on the golden strip of sand wedged between two striking headlands in Sydney’s …

Australia beat South Africa in a day-night Test in Adelaide in November, although they lost the series 2-1 England and Australia will meet in a day-night Test for the first time during the 2017-18 Ashes series. The five-Test series will begin in Brisbane on 26 November, with the day-night match …

Media captionThe film represents the latest effort by China to step up competition in the global movie market Despite a long tradition of movie-making, and much critical acclaim for its directors overseas, China has never yet produced a truly global blockbuster. But this is being billed as the moment when …

Image caption Abdus Salam was born to a family of modest means in the Jhang region of central Punjab in 1926 before becoming one of the country’s pre-eminent academics In 1980, soon after Pakistani professor Abdus Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to developing the theory of …