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16-year-old Australian schoolgirl admits transferring $10,000 to Islamic State fighters to support terror activities

A 16-year-old school girl was apprehended in Sydney earlier this week for transferring thounsands of...

Mar 24, 2016 08:59 PM EDT

Gay couple gets married in Australia after finding legal diplomatic loophole

A manly couple from Australia got married last week after a legal diplomatic loophole. The couple go...

Feb 09, 2016 09:21 AM EST

Australian police raid Sydney home of reported bitcoin creator

Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as...

Dec 09, 2015 10:57 AM EST

Australian PM brings forward vote on leadership to Monday

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, fighting for his political life, said he would bring forward ...

Feb 08, 2015 01:01 AM EST

Australian mother charged with murder of eight children

An Australian mother has been charged with the murder of eight children, seven of them hers, two day...

Dec 21, 2014 04:00 AM EST

'Lone wolf' Australian hostage-taker had violent, unsettled past

The self-styled sheikh behind a siege at a Sydney cafe had been charged as an accessory to murder an...

Dec 16, 2014 11:45 PM EST

Police storm Sydney cafe to end hostage siege, three dead

Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe early on Tuesday morning and freed a number of...

Dec 15, 2014 05:47 PM EST

Hostages held in Sydney cafe, forced to hold Islamic flag in window

Dozens of hostages were trapped inside a central Sydney cafe on Monday, with local television showin...

Dec 14, 2014 09:23 PM EST

Crime and gangs: the path to battle for Australia's Islamist radicals

The children of refugees who fled Lebanon's civil war for peaceful Australia in the 1970s form a maj...

Oct 07, 2014 03:46 AM EDT